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Maybe I'm dazed
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I have felt detached from myself this week, to be honest. I've not been sleeping well for reasons involving chemical capitalism. You see my mattress broke. What a boring thing to have happen. There's no way to make this interesting in the slightest. I'll tell you anyway. It would seem that from one day to the next the chemical components of my not-that-old, not-that-cheap foam mattress disintegrated. I was in a bit of a daze this week. Still I managed to participate in a co-op day, be guest on a podcast, and do more than a little thinking and making for WAO clients.
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Alice Neel painted an empty chair and considered it a self portrait proving that her genius had a somewhat dark sense of humour. A reread of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea" will remind you that even the legends fail wildly. I am spent, especially that creative bit inside. I couldn't frost you a cookie right now. But there are the thousand dreams and animated stories that are real and lovely and for some reason make it easier to accept being tired.
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Maybe I'm civic
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In Bangkok street vendors and slum dwellers are using cooperative structures to access finances and develop better homes and lives for themselves. The people take control. Meanwhile, in California, the crumbling structures of the most famous collective living experiments, hippie communes, are littering the forests. The last of a generation who went back to the land are struggling to stay there as their need for modern infrastructure is bound with their own mortality. The world is changing, I guess, the world is changing.
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Germany is having elections soon. Angela Merkel will step down and none of the people who stand a chance of taking her place seem quite competent. Maybe the comparison is unfair. Whatever you think of her politics, in the 16 years Merkel has been at the helm of the German government, she has proven herself to be competent. Competence should be the bare friggin minimum for the leadership of countries.
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Maybe I need help?
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Sometimes I get anxious that I've managed to kill the juice inside that keeps me getting up in the morning. I'm afraid it will never come back. SO far it's always come back. Optimism isn't a strength of mine.
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