A Perfectionist Endeavor
Posted in Community, General, Spirituality on May 8th, 2008
On May morning I got up at five a.m. and went into town to welcome in the spring with singing and dancing. I had had enough of Morris dancers in other years, so this year I watched some green people who played wonderful folk music with instruments resembling giant bladders. They had green unwashed hair [...]
Posted in General on May 7th, 2008
On Saturday night we were coming home on the bus from a dinner party. It was two o’clock in the morning, and the double-decker bus was packed. Behind us a group of male college students were continuing their party. Most of the other passengers were sleeping, including me, but at some point my boyfriend tapped [...]
Posted in Community, General, Spirituality on May 6th, 2008
If we wish to be respected by the rest of the world, our best bet is to make more money. If this proves difficult or impossible, there is always the alternative path: become a hermit/ barefoot monk/ Jesus.
If we wish to take the path of the impoverished yet spiritually enlightened, we may win [...]
Posted in Beauty, Community, Family, General, Personal Hygiene on May 5th, 2008
My mother is always complaining about how her house doesn’t look good enough. She claims that one of her friends actually refused to stay at her house because it did not meet the friend’s standards for interior design. Here is the formula my mother believes about her house: Children + Pets + Too Many [...]
Posted in Beauty, Community, General, Personal Hygiene, Politics, Spirituality on May 3rd, 2008
This advice can apply to men, but mostly it is meant for women – at least, for those who are capable of the feat. Not many women can grow substantial beards, or will admit to the ability, though we have seen some good ones in rural Italy.
Our main aim with these beards [...]
Posted in Community, General, Spirituality on May 1st, 2008
This advice is directed at the weather. More than two days of rain in a row are too much. We don’t like getting wet when we are riding our bike to the library because our jeans stay wet for hours, and then we get pneumonia and die, and the city turns into a ghost town, [...]