Essays

MUCH BOTHERED WITH BUFFALO
, December 7, 2022

What makes us start writing a diary? The dawning of another year? Or perhaps the beginning of a whole new life? I…


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THE NIGHT I GOT LOST ON THE WAY HOME FROM CHINA
, December 6, 2022

“…And I will think of you when I’m dead in my grave”- Tom Waits The beginning of this century found me, mentally,…


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THE MEANING OF FORAGING
, December 6, 2022

No, I should love the city lessEven than this, my thankless lore;But I desire the wildernessOr weeded landslips of the shore. – The…


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WHAT MONTAIGNE CAN TEACH US ABOUT ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS
, December 6, 2022

The wisdom of Michel de Montaigne extends to most spheres of human life, not excepting agriculture and matters of the palate. In…


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BECOMING
, December 6, 2022

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free…Why am I so changed? – Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Seventeen, supine…


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At the Sight of Beauty Desideratum for Beauty with a Capital B
, November 21, 2022

At the sight of Beauty, the soul grows wings.   —Plato, Greek philosopher (428—348 BC) Beauty kindles love, humility, compassion; As a central…


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