7.11: Bedtime reading
Scrivener July 11th, 2008
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma:
"Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world–and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting.
great photo, great quote. how many trial shots did you have to take to get this one perfectly posed and focused? we’re reading “animal, vegetable, miracle” by barbara kingsolver aloud in the car. it’s wonderful reading, right along the lines of this passage. it’s certainly making me more aware of what i’m buying and eating.
I think I took 3 shots before this one, but in one of them I accidentally set off the flash. The book group at my church just finished that Kingsolver book, but I didn’t read along with them even though I think it sounds interesting. I’m not all that far into Omnivore’s Dilemma yet, but I’m finding it really thought-provoking so far.
well, i like the shot’s framing and the depth of field. good job. i’ve been working on self-portraits-with-other-little-people. i think it just takes time to get the hang of your camera’s aim. i presume you used the timer.
kingsolver is wonderful and poetic and incisive and at times quite wry. i love her, and therefore i love this book. i’ve only read the first chapter of pollan’s book, when it was posted on the new york times site. i need to read him, too.