There Is Nothing So Perfect

Alongside My "no Email" Policy, I Resolve To Make Better Use Of The Wonderful Royal Mail, And Send Letters And Postcards To People. There Is A Huge Pleasure In Writing A Letter, Putting It In An Envelope And Sticking The Stamp On It. And Huge Pleasure In Receiving Real Letters, Too.

When You Go For A Walk, Take Seeds With You, Poppies, Rainbow Chard, Rocket. Plant Them Among The Weeds In Patches Of Wasteland. See What Happens.

If Adam And Eve Were Not Hunter-gatherers, Then They Were Certainly Gatherers. But, Then, Consumer Desire, Or Self-embitterment, Or The 'itch,' As Schopenhauer Called It, Appeared In The Shape Of The Serpent. This Capitalistic Monster Awakens In Adam And Eve The Possibility That Things Could Be Better. Instantly, They Are Cast Out Of The Garden And Condemned To A Life Of Toil, Drudgery, And Pain. Wants Supplanted Needs, And Things Have Been Going Downhill Ever Since.

In The West, We Have Become Addicted To Work. Americans Now Work The Longest Hours In The World. And The Result Is Not Health, Wealth And Wisdom, But Rather A Lot Of Anxiety, A Lot Of Ill Health And A Lot Of Debt.

I Think It's Good To Look At How People Lived Before, And Then Take The Best Bits Of That Culture And Try To Mix It In With Your Own.