The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic" that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone, give it away, and move on with your life...
On a day like this, when the fiddleheads are unfurling and the air is petal soft, I am awash with longing. I know that "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's chloroplasts" is good advice and yet I must confess to full-blown chlorophyll envy. Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow's edge or floating lazily in the pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass
Would you give money to the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company?
It's a good solid name. Probably does what it says on the (baking) tin, right? I've just started chapter 2 and am interested to see where this goes. So far there's been singing, random police violence against those protesting the singing (à la Mr Punch), and now fighting words aimed at the Muffin Boys (presumably unimproved) #chpt2 #nicholasnickleby
JA Westenberg
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