The economic headlines aren’t good these days. Apparently a life is getting more expensive to maintain for those who still have one. The system takes less than five sentences to describe: humans move food too far from where it grows, so its price depends on factors external to food, such as the price of oil, which depends on rich powerful people in the realm of political affairs, which means that the price of food mostly increases due to the greed and pride of a very small number of human beings out of 6 billion.

I’m frustrated.

"The gospel of sin management produces vampire Christians who want Jesus for his blood and little else." (Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy)

I just finished watching the movie "Into the Wild".  Good film - almost great. Thought provoking to say the very least.

I was struck by a Doctor Zhivago quote in the film.  At a key turning point for our protagonist, Chris, he reads out loud a line from Doctor Z that went like this...

"She was here in earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and call each thing by its right name."
-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

I awoke today to an overcast sky on my way to spin class at our local rec center. For the uninitiated, a spin class is a boot-camp style workout where the participants mount bikes that don't work (according to the ordinary definition of a bike) but have a nob that the user turns to add tension to the wheel mechanism and thus more pain to their experience. Meanwhile a fitness nazi yells into a microphone at those who are unable to talk back for fear of 'oatmealing'.

Lets go back a bit.

Once upon a time someone developed language and the written word. People studied the written word. With the written word, messages could be sent in a new way. The old way used messengers and word of mouth. The sender relied on the messenger to not only relay the words, but also to relay the right emotion attached to the words. Once the written word came on the scene, messengers simply carried the letters. They were no longer responsible for conveying anything. They were merely in charge of delivery.