I enjoyed this article on "slow gardening" in the Times. It reported on a movement or style of gardening that focuses on perennials, serendipity, outsider art, re-purposing, informality, and a certain sort of "wabi-sabi" aesthetic.
I think this approach is very much a kindred what I see in a lot of the gardens of Brooklyn. I've always thought someone should really write a great field guide to the gardens of Brooklyn....!
"Hitting a bong is using all four elements at once."
-
If we ask what cannabis can do for philosophy, on the contrary, I think
that the disappointing answer is – not very much. It is a well-worn cliché
that the...