Right after Thoreau's praise of "sauntering" [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/sauntering-with-thoreau/#main-content] come aricles praising walking from NPR [http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/27/316325223/when-older-people-walk-now-they-stay-independent-later] and Fast Company [http://www.fastcoexist.com/3030756/now-doctors-are-prescribing-walks-in-the-park-to-get-us-off-our-butts] . I suppose that it was both my desire…
For years I've been fascinated and puzzled by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's story "Green Tea." Now comes word of a study that speaks to benefits of drinking green tea and contributes to the air of mystery that surrounds the beverage for me. This might be…
I've just set out on reading Perry Miller's Life of the Mind in America (the third volume) and have been delighted to find that to Charles Grandison Finney, one of the key figures of the Second American Awakening in the 1830s, are ascribed the words "…
Old Time DC posted an image from Congressional Cemetery as it was in 1943 and reminded me that I saw some video from the cemetery [http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/You-Just-Have-to-Be-Dead-to-Be-Buried-at-Congressional-Cemetery-259876121.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_DCBrand] this week. > Flower sellers outside Congressional Cemetery, Memorial Day weekend, 1943: http://t.…
From ["It's Probably the Best Pizza in the World]"(http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/2014/05/09/this-is-the-greatest-pizza-in-the-world) in the June 2014 Food and Wine. > "My pizza is always wireless," Pepe is fond of saying. His dough is worked by hand in wooden…
A video I don't want to lose track of. The session is old; I don't remember Honore or his book. Makes me think the tag #slowness might be just as appropriate as #Sabbath.…
For me, I'm pretty sure it wasn't something like Capital. > Inequality has become a hot topic, propelling Bill de Blasio to become mayor of New York City, turning Senator Elizabeth Warren into a star, and elevating the economist Thomas Piketty into such a demigod that…
> 'Bread should be a means through which we release pressure and find balance' Andrew Whitley @breadmatters [https://twitter.com/BreadMatters] #dosourdough [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dosourdough&src=hash] — Do Book Company (@DoBookCo) May 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/DoBookCo/statuses/466644294745735168] It's impossible…