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Although Millennialism exists in many groups, and has for centuries, the media seems to really be enjoying its smug superiority by making fun of the latest group. I feel like inviting them to read Philip Bobbitt's absorbing and disturbing The Shield of Achilles, which demonstrates with an eye to history the dangers facing the emerging market-states, as the nation-state system vanishes.
In less unnerving areas, today Making Light linked a lovely article on the pleasures of biking.
This is something I've discovered of late. As I get more arthritic, I can't exercise like I used to, but being sedentary isn't good for anyone, and also, what with a huge wave of ill and passing relatives and suchlike, I sometimes just need to get out of the house for half an hour to an hour.
Unfortunately we don't have any safe bike paths around here, but I do my best with the local neighborhoods, and my reward is the discovery of century old houses tucked among the tracts, fascinating additions, artful windows, explosions of vines and trellises and flowers everywhere. Kids playing, people doing people things as I glide by. Since I go out when the worst of the sun is over, as dark falls, the windows light up golden, and there are glimpses of interesting rooms.
In less unnerving areas, today Making Light linked a lovely article on the pleasures of biking.
This is something I've discovered of late. As I get more arthritic, I can't exercise like I used to, but being sedentary isn't good for anyone, and also, what with a huge wave of ill and passing relatives and suchlike, I sometimes just need to get out of the house for half an hour to an hour.
Unfortunately we don't have any safe bike paths around here, but I do my best with the local neighborhoods, and my reward is the discovery of century old houses tucked among the tracts, fascinating additions, artful windows, explosions of vines and trellises and flowers everywhere. Kids playing, people doing people things as I glide by. Since I go out when the worst of the sun is over, as dark falls, the windows light up golden, and there are glimpses of interesting rooms.