Saturday, April 16, 2011

Low-tech High-interest Observations

Great tongue-in-cheek Shouts and Murmurs piece in the Mar 28 issue of New Yorker magazine on the art of spending time outdoors.  My sentiments exactly.  dkm
Posted by dkm at 7:22 PM

3 comments:

Jane Robertson said...

Hehehe - spot on. Enough of an element of truth for it to be scary! I am currently reading Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable and Miracle - a less tongue-in-cheek, more polemical riff on a related issue I guess.

April 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM
dkm said...

Exactly---in the respect that kids don't know that food is actually grown in the ground. That book changed the way we eat in this family! That is---the way we try to eat. But at least we choose local when we can. The down side: it takes the edge off the pleasure of eating the beautiful tropical fruit available in our markets.
On another related note: We're currently watching a public television series called "Wild Austrilasia." Oh, the beauty of your part of the world!

April 19, 2011 at 5:01 AM
Jane Robertson said...

It must be incredibly satisfying to write a book that truly changes people's behaviours through the power of example and argument. I thought I was a pretty good 'grow it your own', Farmers' Market girl, but this book demonstrates how much further I have to go...

April 22, 2011 at 10:40 AM

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