January 2014

I have been reading Philip Shepherd’s book New Self New World.  Along with many other observations, Shepherd notes that when humans learned how to build houses, the result was they successfully “created a space…that securely shut out the world of nature”.  Emphasizing this point, Shepherd adds that the Warumungu of Australia called white men “enclosure […]

As the New Year approaches it is easy to find ourselves thinking about the things we “should” do next year.  Our shortcomings become the guiding frame of our New Year’s focus, and our energy goes into efforts at improvement. What if we did something entirely different this year?  What if, instead of imposing improvement on