Randy | October 11, 2012
Murder by poison has a long dark history. For example, whether historically accurate or cooked up by rivals, the Borgia family name is indelibly stained with it. Poison is less used today for killing things that walk on two legs for reasons well presented by Esther Inglis-Arkell in her article The Deadliest Poisons in History […]
Randy | October 10, 2012
This was supposed to be two articles, but try as I might, they kept melding so bugger it. Obviously I’m having a two for one sale. Pareidolia is a phenomenon of cognition in which perception of a stimulus becomes connected with other present or remembered stimuli so that a pattern emerges in the mind of […]
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 3, 2012
“Everything in Nature is about efficiency and balance, which is why life is, first and foremost, an exercise in energy management. For example, the Way of the Wild demands of each parent that their offspring be made self-sufficient as quickly and efficiently as possible. A tool need not be a physical artifact – rest assured […]
Randy | October 3, 2012
Love Thine Enemy By LFM T’is said to love thine enemy Is much to be admired, And I only learned just yesterday It’s something I desired. It happened near a month ago, I met a man one day, The fate of whom converged with mine On roads where trouble lay. So I sought the village […]
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 26, 2012
“Man has a large and highly adaptive brain – nearly as smart as a Crow – along with this pesky opposable thumb – one on each side unless you’ve gone through life being called “Lefty”. We Man critters can imagine and build solutions to problems that Nature didn’t give us the speed, wings, teeth, fur, […]
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 13, 2012
Surfing one of the bushcraft forums I frequent, I came upon a thread titled, “Half cock not working”. Even sight unseen I consider that sad on a number of levels. Mrs. LFM’s reaction was, “I guess that’s a slight improvement on full cock not working….?” Well, my Esteemed Friend Laurie Lacey learned of all this […]
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 […]