Life

During times of change, stay in your cot.

In which we clear the air of the scent of burning plastic and self-delusion.

Two articles on the local drug and homelessness response. Are we tired of outsourcing our fundamental human obligations yet?

Over time I am going to start bringing in older and older posts from my old blog, dot unplanned. I took much of it down several years ago during a big web reorg, but I want to start putting some of it back in place.

Make more, fret less.

I’ve got a life-long habit of spinning up virtual people and arguing with them, which is to say a life-long habit of telling stories to myself that aren’t true. It’s tough to break, and I haven’t broken it. But I’ve added a little thing to the loop.

All of these ‘attack liberals from the left’ outrage merchants are plainly trying to serve a market niche of some sort and seem to be doing okay at it.

Definitely recommended for its low-key vibe, and its emphasis on deliberation and care over simple prescriptions or tech abstemiousness. I’m going to give some of its ideas a try.

I think we just have to know what we know for ourselves, and not because we need people to agree with us. And we need do the best we can to provide a little bit of light for the people right around us.

On our trip to go pick up our new camper in Eastern Oregon, where we made a new friend and had some good pie.