I love to make compost.  It’s incredibly satisfying.  I see myself as a radical alchemist turning detritus into gold and I can’t get enough of it.  Bigger and bigger my pile grows and with it my lust for more, like some out-of-control Malthusian trap which increases the population at the same time it increases the […]

  One thing I’m good at is designing and building houses.  I believe I truly grasp the fundamentals and have learned to work with the elements of our environment to create living spaces which meet the needs and wishes of the people who use them.  I have worked at it passionately for a long time. […]

    I’m not a very good salesman.  Sales is a one way street with the sole objective being to convince the buyer that they will be getting the most for their money if they purchase your product rather than someone else’s.  When it comes to marketing, I spend way too much time wondering if […]

  This is my own personal hang-up and I know it.  There’s really no good reason why someone spending ten or twenty dollars on Lottery tickets should bother me at all.  It’s their money and they can do whatever they want with it.  That’s their right.  But when I was a kid, the ‘numbers’ was […]

Don’t blame the machines.  Blame the designers of the machines or the makers of the machines or the users of the machines, but it’s useless to blame anything on a machine.  The problem is that as soon as you blame the machine , you lose your ability to manipulate and use it to your benefit. […]

I love to observe.  I always have.  Peeping Tom.  I learn from watching what’s going on around me, seeing how things work (or don’t work) and being aware of as much as possible.  Developing and maintaining awareness is incredibly important to me because it leads to understanding, and understanding is beneficial in almost every circumstance. […]

 The world continues to fly apart today,  and the way everybody is talking you would think this has never happened before!

  Pointing the way.  How can you be cynical in a world this incredible?

 I have finally seen the light! This is the greatest. I’m so glad that I’m still alive in the 21st century.