[It's a pain to keep bees]...but man, for that moment in the late summer, when you're out there in the yard and they're in all the clover in the lawn you're putting off mowing so it'll bloom—

You let go of the dumb stuff, let go of your bills and obligations, let go of your fears and insecurities, let go of your little philosophical tics and twitches, and they come into focus. All around the yard, they're out there in the clover, on a fifty million year-long mission, coming and going the way the stars race through the sky as we plummet around the sun and around the galactic center at sixty thousand miles an hour, and you're just this little mote, lost among it all, important only because you're right there, in that moment and no other, watching honeybees setting the world alight with fruit and flowers, as it's been for all these uncountable years.

don't tell me that the promise of universal access to networked information is "largely unrealized". People in the education business -- both those who educate others and those who seek to educate themselves -- have very real access to the networked library of mankind, and they are making very real use of it.

The author may not see it, but we are living through a great renaissance right now. There are certain types of minds -- very creative, very determined, and very thirsty for knowledge -- that we as a race have wasted for years. A thousand Einsteins have lived and died in a thousand remote villages, far from the libraries they needed. They don't have to do that any more.

We finally brought the library to them.

man you guys have a weird definition of "easiest" or "healthiest".

Here you go. You can do this for about 2 dollars and it will feed you for an entire day. You'll be getting hardly any fat, tons of protien and fiber, and it tastes delicious.

1 can of black beans
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 can of corn

put it all in a saucepan. I add a boullion cube and whatever spice happens to be jumpin out at me. Of course garlic ginger cumin pepper all are fine. Or not. Heat it up and put it in a freaking bowl. Eat. Have energy. Lose weight. Make new friends. Get a promotion.

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I second glenwood's suggestion, with the addition of brown rice or quinoa for some fiber, and spinach, scallions, or other green veg for more nutrition.

REALLY cheap and really tasty: one package hippie ramen. Cook, drain, discard 'flavor' packet. Mix noodles with tablespoon all-natural peanut butter, juice of 1 lime, chili-garlic sauce to taste, and 3-4 chopped scallions. Add other veg in season.

I used to eat this every day for lunch. It's got grain, protein, vitamin c, etc. And it's yummy.

When we think of contemporary poetry, what comes to mind is difficult footnotes, scorching confessions, bardic combat, or maybe a new translation of a classic. Look to the land of children and you spy the sidewalk's end or a pack of Thneeds. Somewhere between the gravid and the childlike is the realm of speculative poetry.

The Zine Library has hundreds of zines in pdf format for your perusal. They are organized into categories ranging from the common political (anarchism, political prisoners & animal liberation) and identity based zines (indigenous, race & gender) to the more esoteric (anarchist history, primitivism & theory) as well as the useful (cooking, DIY & organizing manuals) and arty (art, comics & music). Now, zines are by their very nature hit and miss but there are some real treasures to be found. Note: Many if not most zines are set up to be printed out and bound together in chapbooks. That requires a bit of going back and forth when reading in pdf-format, but they wouldn't be real zines if they were straightforward to read ;) Don't know what a zine is? A pretty good overview is provided by zine librarian Jenna Freedman in Zines Are Not Blogs: A Not Unbiased Analysis.

Philip Pullman interviewed about the ideas behind "His Dark Materials" [YT,1 hour, South Bank Show,parts 2,3,4,5,6,7]. Inside, and hidden from those who don't want spoilers, are links relating to the ideas raised and about the books generally.

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