Secret confession time: (Put the tea down, Pamela)
I deeply, sincerely wanted to mash that promiscuous spud. Alternatively, I'd consider a trip to Germany... --Doug On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:18 AM, peggy miller <[email protected]>wrote: > 1) I agree with the below quoted thoughts of Steve Smith -- > and 2) Duh ... how stupid am I? .. I thought the joke about Idaho was a > reference to gardening -- as in "hoe" ... maybe Doug needs to get out there > with the soil more! Or go to Germany for a vacation where it is legal .. > Peggy > > Scott Smith: > Either way, everyone thinks everyone else is trying to destroy humanity > (and life, the universe, and everything)! If the stakes are this high, why > are we screaming and running in every direction at once? Wait... isn't that > what we humans (primates, mammals, vertebrates) do? What possible survival > value is there in that? The canoe is rocking and tipping madly and we are > all rushing to see how far out the side we can hang our bodies to try to > balance the "idiots" hanging out the other side. Anyone who's fallen out > of a canoe knows that a good strategy when things get tippy is to move to > the center and drop down low, not shriek loudly as we manically try to > obtain a dynamic balance with the other shrieking occupants. > > ....... > In the spirit of hunkering down in the center of the canoe... I think I > should dig out those 5 year old vegetable seeds and start patiently doing > germination tests. Then I should start preparing an area inside my south > facing windows to sprout some starts. In about a week, the soil will be > ready for some light tilling and I could plant those peas and an early crop > of greens outside and start getting ready to put in the starts mid-May. > Nah... I think I'll go to the Hummer store and see if the prices are finally > down enough that I can finally trade my 30 yr old 40MPG Civic in on... I > deserve to ride in style. I am, after all, one of Mother Nature's most > special children! Gas is hovering at $2... no big deal. And the produce > section is *full* of great green goodness shipped halfway across the planet, > all shiny and wrapped up in cellophane, much prettier than anything I could > grow myself. What was I thinking? Articles on big thinkers like Dyson get > me all nostalgic sometimes. > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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