Archive for December, 2005
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
the propensity to hoard
And now for the second post on my newly created series on “clutter”. I found an old NYTimes article on the nature of hoarding (I wasn’t hoarding the article, I swear): In one sense, Dr. Frost agreed, space makes the difference between eccentricity and pathology. ”People can collect and not throw things away without it [...]
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
“Clutter Clarity”
In her piece “Citizen Consumer”, Cynthia Peters writes about the Boston Sunday Globe in what she calls the “corporate press”: Speaking of stuff, that is the main focus of the front page of the other city section of the paper, “City Weekly.” The graphic shows a figure-stick man attempting to shut his closet door. But [...]
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
the greatest nonviolent resister…
Merry belated christmas. Just came across a wonderful reflection piece by the Jesuit priest Father John Dear in New Mexico, where I want to move because the priests are so progressive. I’m not really religious, I was raised Hindu but consider myself more spiritual than anything else, but I really respected Father John Dear’s piece [...]
