World on Fire

I am repost­ing this from Daniel O’Con­nor’s great blog, Catal­lax­is. Daniel’s site offers a sophis­to­cat­ed dis­cus­son of enlight­ened eco­nom­ic mod­els. And it is clear where his heart is. Thank you, Daniel.  Daniel wrote: This lat­est video from Sarah McLach­lan is a pow­er­ful way to think about issues of price and val­ue… specif­i­cal­ly, the very dif­fer­ent… Con­tin­ue read­ing World on Fire

The Long Road

Hear Dan read this post. Some­one I knew ran off this road return­ing home late one night. He had been drink­ing and died in the acci­dent that every­one knew was­n’t one. I heard about this a cou­ple months ago just after it hap­pened. I did­n’t know him that well, but well enough to be real­ly… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Long Road

The River Knows Everything

Hear Dan read this post. One of the most pow­er­ful pas­sages in Her­mann Hes­se’s clas­sic spir­i­tu­al tale, Sid­dhartha, goes like this: I am only a fer­ry­man and it is my task to take peo­ple across and to all of them my riv­er has been noth­ing but a hin­drance on their jour­ney. They have trav­eled for mon­ey and busi­ness, to wed­dings and on pil­grim­ages;… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Riv­er Knows Everything