Tag: play

  • Writing, completing, and owning

    I’m sure other folk have worked this out, probably well-paid people with degrees in management. But I find that when I get to the second half of a writing project—the...

  • interspecies play as the antidote

    That recent post, ‘The Myth of Sustainability‘, is a short realist critique of sustainability. Here I want to dig under the realism and pull out the more profound challenges. Then...

  • My office smells

    I walked in the door of my office this morning, having trod across the Old Aberdeen landscape. Rotting leaves, frozen ponds, barking dogs. Having heaved one sack each of papers...

  • Stan Freberg to the (sardonic) rescue

    In my youngest daughter’s school they celebrated the visit of Green Santa, who was into Repair Reuse Recycle sort of prezzies. I like that. Stan Freberg, 50 years ago, took...

  • One day later

    Now that life has been rather stable for a while—we’ve been living in the same house for four years, Eleanor’s in school, and we haven’t had to negotiate burning barricades...