We have a covered patio on one side of our house which is accessed by a sliding glass door. I use it most often to…
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I’m reading my email & letting my brain wander idly in a train-of-consciousness writing… and it occurs to me that the question one of my…
Continue ReadingThe signs & results of property ownership
Our old apple tree has a few blossoms on it! They look like lovely pinkish froth, almost, despite there being only a handful of them.…
Continue ReadingBeauty of Solitude in Wilderness
There is a sort of beauty found in terrible weather, which I’d forgotten. It’s nice to remember. Because I don’t currently have a backyard, I…
Continue ReadingReading & voting: Williams’ “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family & Place”
As I write this I’ve just spent the past two or three hours sitting in the tire shop and waiting for a tire change. It…
Continue ReadingThoughts on V. Shiva’s “Staying Alive”
I’m reading Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, & Development for an on-line class on Ecofeminism which I’m TAing. The following are two comments made…
Continue Reading“Toward A Queer Ecofeminism” by Greta Gaard
The following is a quick review of an article read for the Ecofeminism class in which I am a TA — yay! I’d like to…
Continue ReadingFascinatingly more on matrifocal societies
Both Sanday (reviewed by me here and here) and Du are anthropologically trained ethnographers researching indigenous societies. As previously noted, their work offers explicit epistemological…
Continue ReadingWhat is humankind’s “worst discovery” ever? part 1
A common assumption I’ve frequently read is that the “worst discovery” made by humankind was agriculture, in that it taught men (not humans) the concept…
Continue ReadingWomen & World Religions comps booklist, take II
This has been a very strange semester so far, and I’m less than a week in. Amongst other things, my Women & World Religions comps…
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