Randy | October 6, 2012
We first met Stella last year on Day 30. Her saga continues. Stella On Her Own By LFM It was a day in August when Young Stella got the word – “Report thee to thy dream job lass, The sooner is preferred.” The night before she moved away From home at twenty-one, Stella kissed her […]
Randy | October 1, 2012
October again, and the harvest is in, by every definition of the word. Welcome to another season of Dark Sentiments! If you’ve never experienced it before, “Dark Sentiments” is an annual series that appears here every October, each day of that month presenting observations and tales of people, things, doings, and goings on that come […]
Randy | September 30, 2012
The sky is grey, the moon is full, and Dark Sentiments returns tomorrow for a third season as dark as six feet up a Moose’s ass. In case you’ve never experienced it, take a walk on the wild side with this retrospective from the past two seasons. The intro to the inaugural season of Dark […]
Randy | September 23, 2012
I recently encountered this idea on one of the forums I frequent – rugged, sealed, screw top containers for carrying a small supply of pain killers, anti-allergy meds, or whatever; built out of a single plastic bottle and two bottle caps. The originator of this idea employed a sealant for waterproofing but that didn’t sit […]
Randy | September 19, 2012
Last week we talked about what Gandhi called “swadeshi“. If you haven’t read that article before this one, go do it now. We’ll wait. Gandhi proposed a veering away from the British model of centralized control of resources and industrialized production power in favour of localized, self-sufficient community based government and production of necessary commodities […]
Randy | September 12, 2012
“Its a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery methods continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak […]
Randy | September 5, 2012
“And does this mean the end of all Mankind? I sincerely doubt it, because a state of balance and harmony is not found by living in a continuous state of discord with Nature. In our work with troubled Dogs, Mrs. LFM and I must seek to restore and cultivate the Way of the Wild as […]
Randy | September 3, 2012
Clem Hiltz died on the 17th day of April, 2008. Dying was the last thing he ever did, but in all 96 years of his accomplished life, it was the least notable. Dying doesn’t make anyone unique because sooner or later everybody is going to do it. It’s the challenges living brings, how they are […]
Randy | August 29, 2012
Ecology (noun) – The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. ~ Source: oxforddictionaries.com Building on what we talked about in last week’s article in this series, today will be about ecology, growth, and limits. “Ecology”, as you can see, is a wonderfully useful […]
Randy | August 27, 2012
If you’ve got a portable device that has a bar code scanner option, you can use it to read the Universal Product Code (UPC) printed on the packaging of, and often the store shelving that holds, just about everything you might ever want to buy. If your device gives you access to the internet you […]