simple pleasure in just reading

Despite majoring in English, and majoring quite well, I do not read all that often. Lately though, I have started to find reading more pleasurable then usual, a simple pleasure in life, letting written words tell worlds of stories to open and interested minds.

Tasked to discuss writing in the same vein as sex, both are acts to create,
the written word as life.

Conceiving creations of language
Begetting new written works
Ever hopeful of the impacts of your creations

Thoughts after Sicko

How many CEOs, and other high up employees, of big health insurance companies will be able to sustain their medical records being scrutinized by their own standards, just like they have people doing now? who knows, how do we find out?
Simple, my challenge is to see these health records be scrutinized by independent auditors using their own standards. And if these companies which love to say over and over, that people like Michael Moore are completely exaggerating isolated incidents, than to prove Moore and others wrong, the results, but not the records, should be a matter of public record. Just say simply, whether by their own standards or not these big-wigs qualify for their own companies health coverage.

Wow, what a nice dream, time to wake up.

Green cars are awesome, if you can afford them...

The auto-centric way of life can be "green" too, we hear, once "green" cars are available. However, because of the crash on Wall St. and other factors, being able to afford one is getting even more difficult thanks to fewer banks willing to approve fewer loans on automobiles these days, especially to people with not spectacular credit. Interest rates are going up, even if your credit is good. http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2008/09/how-wall-street.html

September 11, 1973

In perusing the archives of Counterpunch, this article
"The Other 9/11" by Paul Cantor bears reading:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cantor09112008.html

Farewell Fukuoka san

Masanobu Fukuoka, pioneer in the movement towards sustainable farming passes away August 16, 2008. The news hurt when I finally heard it myself. I had never met Fukuoka San, but during the last few months of a beautiful life devoted to improving quality of life for people everywhere, I got to learn a hands on approach to the use of his techniques to practice his radical method of farming. I posted information earlier in this blog, around April of 2008. To learn even one bit of the most sustainable method of farming became tremendously empowering. The beauty of Fukuoka's methodology is that the poorest farmers in the world can be empowered through using his methods, since his methods require no machines, and not even that significant an amount of labor.

The farm, five acres of land in Lancaster county, the only 'natural farm' in Lancaster this author can report on at this time (would love to hear of any others!)

For more information on Fukuoka's methods, I'll refer you to this site:
http://fukuokafarmingol.info/fover.html

America is not number 1!

I love America too, and I want America to be #1 in health care, literacy, freedom of the press, education, clean power generation and more. How can America be the best? we have a great knowledge base, the resources and the will power to do it. Americans themselves can be agents of great change by turning off the latest pundit-spew and getting out, and trying to create change themselves. Democrat? Republican? we all breath the same air, have many of the same concerns and share many of the same needs. Yet we allow ourselves so much divisiveness to tear us apart. Both sides are guilty, but both sides can change.

wow, a new post

The celestial bodies are in the Virgo phase. One several generations of my family shares.

In two years of owning bikes, I never thought much of leaving them in the backyard. That is until the theft of my most recent bike, a Miyata 310 sport-touring bike.
Devastated at the loss of what was the best bike I ever owned, I am only confident I'll never see it again.

I've tried thinking positively about this whole incident. I cannot find it easy to forgive whoever stole it, yet the great joy the bike brought me as I rode around Lancaster for hours on end is something no thief could ever take from me.

Starting yet another semester of school. I know I'll like Advanced Comp, and the other three classes should be fun and interesting in their own right. Though the overall enthusiasm about being back at school has been on the wane since 2005.

Mi birthday, numero 25, is a week away. I think about it once in a while, but it's not a big issue for me.

I have, sort of, gone car free. I drove the Oldsmobile back to VA for the last time about two weeks ago. I do not truly need my own car now; so far I have not felt like my mobility is significantly compromised. Excellent friends give me rides when I give advanced notice, and offer to chip in for gas, plus my mom still has a car.

Just some random thoughts for now...
Alvis Sherpa III