“Arrogance of mind” (as defined by Hannah Arendt):
an utterly irrational confidence in the calculability of reality
The greatest modern plague? You be the judge.
Trying to buy a house in today’s market feels… dirty. When every house bid has to be 30–100k over asking to even be considered, driving up comp after comp, making each sale another death knell for low-wage (and even middle-wage) families, buying feels not unlike participating in a crime. I honestly don’t know any other way to feel about it. We’re still trying to buy, but ffs do I hate it
Daydreaming
Wendell Berry:
Honey bee
DB:
Quantities compete for space; qualities complement one another.
“I don’t think America’s biggest problem is that we are divided between two coherent but opposed worldviews. Our problem is deeper. There are so many dots, and so many of them seem to be moving around the page, that it is getting harder to draw any kind of picture at all.”
Winter-Spring contrast at Lava Lake
Emerald green at the M trail
