I have been thinking about time a good deal lately—how I spend it, to whom I give it. Time in our consumer society has become a commodity. Most of us sell it, along with our energy and skill to our employers. We give it to friends and family, but we have to do so in [...]
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Enough Time
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Time on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our Dependence Problem
Posted in Uncategorized on June 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When we talk about depending on God and each other we tend to talk about it as though it were a choice, but it is not a choice any more than depending on earth, air, or water is a choice. There is no choice there—we simply are. Our failure to recognize our dependence can be [...]
Escape from Lonely Freedom
Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I spent four nights in a hotel room, for three days I never left the hotel or the adjacent office building. I was in a nowhere land, an island amidst the industrial landscape of anywhere. And I felt at the same time loneliness and freedom—the two feelings combined—a lonely freedom. Few people knew [...]
And right action is freedom
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just finished reading Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder. It is a biography of Paul Farmer the extraordinary doctor who has been working for over twenty years to give a preferential option for the poor in health care. Inspired by nuns he met while an undergraduate student at Duke and liberation theology that said [...]
Commonwealth Use Tax
Posted in Uncategorized on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is little more unsavory coupling of capitalism and regulation than carbon markets. The whole idea is absurd and sounds like something straight out of the markets-make-right playbook. Well we all know better now and as Matt Frost says, “the carbon market may prove to be another brilliantly designed incinerator of capital.” Much like mortgage [...]
