Stuart Evans
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piano technician • collaborative pianist
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12,167 hours of washing our bodies. That’s how much life you use, if you spend 20 minutes per day washing and moisturizing your skin and hair (and you live to be 100, as we all surely will). That adds up to nearly two entire years of washing every waking hour.
The Atlantic • I Quit Showering, and Life Continued
If we romanticize the past, we may miss the fact that it is the modern, global, industrial economy (not the local resources of the wintry country around New York, Boston, or Chicago) that allows us to savor traditional, peasant, fresh, and natural foods.
Rachel Laudan • A Plea for Culinary Modernism
At its extremes, the Modernist elevation of science and materialism — both that science is the only means for answering problems, and reality is solely built from unconscious matter — has an axiomatic quality that borders on faith.
Alexander Beiner • Is Religion Coming Back?
Depression is often deflated anger,
Sometimes it helps to reinflate it, let it move, let it flail, get clearer on what you feel angry and helpless about https://t.co/FF0kiZBUvg
River Pilgrimx.comThe word “God” is like a stick of dynamite. It remains valuable precisely because its utterance sets off such potent cultural and conceptual reverberations. Whitehead, in his own way, used it to name something at once tender and cosmic, intangible yet inescapable, the poet of the world who does not create the world from nothing but helps us make... See more