Observations and links

Observations and links

by | Apr 24, 2007 | Uncategorized

We live near an ele­ment­ary school. Every morn­ing I can hear a young child recit­ing the pledge of alle­gi­ance to Amer­ica. It’s odd. It’s everything I dis­liked when I was at school about nation­al­ism at school. It’s everything...

It is forbidden to forbid

by | Apr 18, 2007 | Uncategorized

In a dis­cus­sion about road signs here, Doug and I agreed that the major dif­fer­ence between Aus­tralia and Amer­ica is that in Aus­tralia, everything is for­bid­den unless expressly per­mit­ted while in Amer­ica, everything is per­mit­ted unless expressly...

Adventures on the coast

by | Apr 18, 2007 | Uncategorized

Last night, Doug and I took his new toy for a wander over the moun­tain, on wind­ing roads through red­wood forests and oak and some­thing called cha­par­ral (which I’d never head of). We even­tu­ally fol­lowed San Gregorio creek down to where it met the...