Once again you've taken something my mind can only graze and pinpointed it and shaped it.
Have you considered publishing a collection of your essays? I ask this because I hate reading from a computer and I'm considering printing your essays and stitching them in a handmade book, but, of course, if you were to publish a collection I would buy it instead.
I’m reading a book by James Rebanks called “Pastoral Song” about growing up on his family’s farm in England, and what he learned about the land and the old ways from his grandfather, before modernity changed rotational farming into flat, huge fields, and the cows no longer were sent to play in the Spring pasture because antibiotics could keep them cooped up, etc. Your essay reminds me that we may know more about the world now, thanks to technology, but we don’t know the world the way folks in the past did. And I agree, at least travel breaks our usual habituation, allowing us to discover (at least for ourselves) new experiences, people, and environs. Great post, Charles.
Once again you've taken something my mind can only graze and pinpointed it and shaped it.
Have you considered publishing a collection of your essays? I ask this because I hate reading from a computer and I'm considering printing your essays and stitching them in a handmade book, but, of course, if you were to publish a collection I would buy it instead.
I’m reading a book by James Rebanks called “Pastoral Song” about growing up on his family’s farm in England, and what he learned about the land and the old ways from his grandfather, before modernity changed rotational farming into flat, huge fields, and the cows no longer were sent to play in the Spring pasture because antibiotics could keep them cooped up, etc. Your essay reminds me that we may know more about the world now, thanks to technology, but we don’t know the world the way folks in the past did. And I agree, at least travel breaks our usual habituation, allowing us to discover (at least for ourselves) new experiences, people, and environs. Great post, Charles.