Ok, seriously. I don't know how I would get any work done without this blog. I either do some rambling here or I wind up baking. And, lest you think I do a lot of rambling, know that I do a heck of a lot of baking. I find these both of activities essential to greasing the wheels, like I have to get a certain amount of puttering done in order to get down and dirty with this paper. It is the last paper, and I just realized that I had not been able to tell anyone what I was studying, really, until the work was all done. Oh, and that is just like me, too- I dive in head first with everything- puzzles, recipes, house buying, dog acquiring... And, it works out when I can tell it in the past tense, but when someone asks what I am doing in the present it always sounds so flaky. I might need a press agent to give me sound bites to keep up appearances. You know, in general. Hee.
Anyway, good news- Michael Pollan wrote a new book, In Defense of Food and you can listen to the NPR interview here. Sigh. Plus, Joel Salatin (of The Omnivore's Dilemma and fantastic egg fame) wrote a book called Everything I want to Do is Illegal. There is not a better title than that anywhere.
Ok, ok. Back to work. I'll leave you with some real wisdom regarding the modern idea of nature.
"For many of us, nature is a last bastion of certainty; wilderness, as something beyond the reach of history and accident is one of the last in our fast dwindling supply of metaphysical absolutes, those comforting transcendental values by which we have traditionally taken out measure and set our sights. To take away predictable, divinely ordered nature is to pull up one of our last remaining anchors. We are liable to float away on the trackless sea of our own subjectivity" (Pollan Second Nature 184).
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