The grass flittered
while the wind stimulated
the leaves reacted
and the river
moved in diagonal
across the horizon
autumn spent the day
settling in
as the rain dabbled onto
our sweaters
by nightfall the windows
were pulled low
the blankets were scavenged
from dusty attics
the air was cool

Information

"Information itself has become relative."

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/what-socialism-means-to-the-masses/?ref=global-home

Summer of '09

It was the summer of mulling. Mulling and more mulling. People hurting each other, people being hurt. People standing up and getting hurt for doing that, people not standing up and getting hurt for that. It was the summer of turmoil. The celestial gods were angry and irritable. They were tired of all of us staying so complacent for so long. Governments argued and fought with their people. People argued and fought with those they loved. New things happened, old things ended.
People were angry and grumpy and creative and innovative all together. It was so much change it had to be an upheaval.
Those that preferred the dolphins were forced into waters with sharks, those that preferred the bite of sharks were stuck with sheen skin of dolphins.
Long living narratives cracked open, the way things were just couldn’t continue to be the way things are.

abstraction according to answers.com

The selection and conceptualization of a phenomenon, or some aspect of it. Abstraction is an essential part of model building where some aspect or part of the real world is extracted and simplified. Unfortunately, during the process of simplification, so much information has to be jettisoned that the resulting model may have very limited success.

Other abstractions are based on idealism; models are made of an ‘ideal type’ such as the Latin American city model. The problem is that it is quite possible to construct very different ideal types of the same phenomenon.

Communalism Vs Individualism again

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/mathematics-and-economics/#comment-234077

do we have it all wrong?
maybe half of it.

its gone

It was a dream
A 30 year old dream
Of escape
Adventure
Laughter
And intensity
I came home
I sat down
And then it went away
in its stead
came negotiation
compromise
frustration

East vs West

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."

Adam Smith

"What is the key to untie the knot of the mind’s suffering? Benevolent
thought, sound and movement."

Hafiz