Better things
Since the end of March or so one of my favorite Weblogs Dim Sum Diaries has been on a partial hiatus and another Phil Cubeta's Wealth bondage, has spawned to a serious and more purposeful offspring Gift Hub (Connecting Funders, Active Citizens, and Advisors). "Active citizens"; is that like Al Farabi's Active intellect, or vigorously active. Should I buy good walking shoes and get a Duck Stamp pass to the national parks and seashores? Maybe more like activated charcoal - the kind you find in household water filters, soaking up societal toxins. Perhaps I have started off by willfully misunderstanding the endeavor. That's me.
Philanthropy! I confess I don't think about philanthropy much. People who have slid out of the middle class into the working class, as a class, don't. I associate it with a pushing and pulling consciousness raising exercise to pry open the minds and cluched fists of the rich, who are the only ones (well, them and gangsters, but what difference?) who have wads of cash on them large enough to be taken and put directly to work. While, all the while, reminding them of how nobly obliging they are.
Mir from DSD I believe is trying to write a book, making the web log temporarily a side project. All these people with better projects than their web logs. Writing a book is like having a hall pass in middle school - it allows one to wander the corridors in midday. I claim simply to have not heard the bell. The etymology of better, betera in old english, comes from the sanskrit bhadra fortunate. Briefly I thought it might be related to bette as in Belle en le Bette and was trying to sort out the best conjunction of beast and better. This as it turns out wasn't necessary. I suppose Atomized here is my better project, my painted porch.
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