Thanks possibleuniverse
(Source: halftheskymovement)
..Not so free as it used to be, Berlin.
The view from the Jamaica side of the Spree towards Kreuzberg 36.
Across the way, a mobile police center.
While the USDA is downplaying the public health ramifications of the California BSE case, US public-health officials should see it as a kick in the pants. It’s time to ramp up the testing of cows—and Europe has proven it can be done economically. And it’s time to ban all cow protein from animal feed
Tesla and SolarCity Team Up to Create New Off-the-Grid Solar Power Storage System
Thanks socialuprooting:
from ZeitNews RSS
Of course I follow unrelated blogs..
Over the year+ I’ve collected my list of tumblrs that curate and feed me nourishment from fields like: transcendent imagery, soulful divinity, fashion-as-craft, bohemian style, cabin/treehouse/tinyhouse porn, softcore porn-porn slash romanticism, environment-friendly design, radical left politics, revolutionary thinking, literary gems, and of course, the prized original journaling of the White Elephant.
God bless you every one.
Celsius Swings
It was 11 degrees in Berlin, the third week of March, when I left for the Cote D’Azur, where the temperature hovered around 18 degrees, and my bikini saw the light of day, Winter to Spring. Returning to Berlin, it was 8-10 degrees the first week of April, and the Saturday of Easter/Passover weekend, it *snowed*. The next day I flew to Tel Aviv. Just four hours in a plane took me from Winter to Summer: the last day in Israel, on the Dead Sea, it was a sweltering 32 degrees. The day before yesterday, a four hour flight from Summer to Spring. At present it’s a pleasant 17 in Berlin.
tel avivi perspective
“The Middle East or Asia invents it. Europe regulates it. The USA monetizes it.”
From a brief exchange with a guy who works in Israeli TV. He’d told me about his genre-jumping new storytelling format that they’d launched on Facebook where people could—and did— interact with it, and I’d asked how it could make money if released that way. After a breath I realized how USAmerican the question was. He laughed and shrugged: is that really the point??
[Every conversation I’ve been having lately packs a punch. A delicious, divine punch.]
Exactly…My Life: Fewer worries, less Stuff, (yes, less work/money too) = more time, more reflection, more peace.
Thanks heartelectric (via Inspiring Links: Sketches & Books)
Robert Reich: The Fable of the Century
Go robertreich:
Imagine a country in which the very richest people get all the economic gains. They eventually accumulate so much of the nation’s total income and wealth that the middle class no longer has the purchasing power to keep the economy going full speed. Most of the middle class’s wages keep falling and…
Holding Out On Us
Since Berlin’s been holding out on us with regard to the sun and spring weather, I’ve been escaping to warmer climes. This weekend it’s off to Tel Aviv.
When not one but two Berliner friends joked about my taking advantage of the sex tourism there, I asked my friend in Tel Aviv what the deal was. He was like: it’s not like Thailand. They’re not taking money—but there are certainly plenty of guys eager to get with the city’s lady visitors.
Ah. So German women go there seeking warm-blooded males with normal, uncomplicated sex drives. I see. It all makes perfect sense now.
From my power company, the sources of my electricity. No nuclear powering us in Berlin and Hamburg! Better yet: I can upgrade to pure green, renewable sources. And I shall.
I know, I love your grandkids right back.
Thanks legrandcirque:
Ottomar Anschütz, The first train at the Berlin U-Bahn, Berlin, Germany, 1902.
things i am excited about right now
-spring + summer
-the sun
-a trip to Nice
-a trip to Tel Aviv
-a visit from the Dean
-a visit from Snopea
-a visit from Mister True
-a trip to Reykjavik
-a trip to Tangiers
-a trip to the Languedoc
-a visit from the Juggler
-swimming in the lakes…
