Living With the Other – An Introduction and Consideration
To Begin With I’m currently living with an evergreen blackberry. The blackberry in the middle of July. It’s growing up out of the earth through a very tiny crack between the bottom of the wall and the...
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Today I awoke to blue skies. This may not seem surprising–it is August, after all–but even at this time of year, sun cannot be taken for granted here on the Oregon coast. The last week has been cloudy...
View ArticlePhotos: Off-The-Grid Cooking
Tonight we’re making chicken soup with the bones of two raised-and-slaughtered-on-the-farm chickens that we cooked up over an open fire last night. The soup’s being cooked on our rocket stove, which...
View ArticleEnding Our Exuberance
An entry in the How To Be Poor series In my previous entry in the How To Be Poor series on voluntary poverty, I argued that many people’s dietary choices reveal the sort of luxury we have available to...
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