Black & White & Read All Over
☆ March 14, 2011
The past week was so busy and I have not written a thing in what feels like ages!
While I remedy that, here’s what I’ve been reading ~
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Food Sovereignty in Maine by Natural News
“Local residents recently voted unanimously at a town hall meeting to pass an ordinance that reinforces its citizens’ God-given rights to “produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing,” which includes even state- and federally-restricted foods like raw milk.”
On Social Media by Mizz Information
“We truly have become a nation of free laborers… providing data that Facebook in turn sells in one way or another, boosting Facebook’s worth to an estimated $100 BILLION. We tweet away, thinking nothing of it; meanwhile, Twitter is making up to $120,000 PER DAY per promoted trend. …What you’re actually doing is taking time out of YOUR life and putting money into someone else’s pocket.”
The Next Billion Seconds by the human network
“Mimesis = imitation. We see something, and we want to do it… We have learned to use mimesis to our advantage, but equally it makes us its slaves… We can imitate nearly anything, but what we choose to imitate is determined by our network of peers, that set of relationships which we now know as our ‘social graph’… Your social graph is the most important thing you have that can be represented in bits. With it, I can manipulate you. I can change your tastes, your attitudes, even your politics….”
Just Kids by Patti Smith
“Robert and I were irrevocably entwined… and often puzzled friends and acquaintances by our indefinable devotion. We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.”
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March 14th, 2011 @ 9:18 am
WHAT IS THE NEW CALF’S NAME? lOVE THE PIC.. THE LITERATURE NOT SO MUCH. JUST KEEPIN IT SIMPLE.
March 14th, 2011 @ 9:34 am
Aww, they all seem to be focused on the baby.
March 14th, 2011 @ 9:45 am
LOL – they’re all focused on getting through that gate! :-)
March 14th, 2011 @ 9:52 am
I’ve been looking forward to the Patti Smith book for awhile.
March 14th, 2011 @ 10:43 am
Yay for new life! (And the “God-given right to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of our choosing.) Sweet.
March 14th, 2011 @ 10:58 am
I have this overwhelming feeling that you will stop blogging soon and focus on your life at the farm and your work. You will join all the rebels out there who refuse the new order.
Good for you if you do. It is important though, that you show to others an another life, a clearer path, it is a political gesture, a gentle one but powerful. What is happening in Japan is a strong warning in all ways. We are just passing trough, Mother Earth is the master and can terminate us anytime, fast. One has to pause and think. Some of us are so deep into the BS that there does not seem to be a way out. Pausing and thinking.
March 14th, 2011 @ 11:03 am
Awwwww how precious!!!! :)
March 14th, 2011 @ 12:37 pm
Love the pics and the topics.
Also, the comments and the insights they bring – like the focus of the rest of the cattle on the babe.
Good of you to post this in the midst of all you have going on.
Sharing a bit of what you’re contemplating or doing is added benefit to my life.
March 14th, 2011 @ 1:23 pm
A former colleague of mine, who was much preoccupied with travel and who suffered from absent-mindedness, once turned timidly to his wife as he set forth upon a long journey. “Is the place where I am going,” he asked her anxiously, for he depended much upon her notes of instruction, “in my pocket?” It strikes me now that in few centuries has the way seemed darker or the maps we carry in our separate pockets more contradictory, if not indecipherable. Eiseely, The Night Country
March 15th, 2011 @ 12:59 am
Is that Sir Baby’s baby?
Is that Frisco inspecting the new calf?
I’ve already read the Food Sovereignty article. It didn’t mention this as an attempt to outlaw GMO and contamination by Monsanto.
March 15th, 2011 @ 10:56 pm
That baby has to be called “Panda”.
March 13th, 2012 @ 9:29 am
I read the Patti Smith book some time ago. It is excellent. It is one of those books that one dwells upon long after it is finished. I highly recommend it.