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Welcome to the New American Digest: 2003-2020
From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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New Wood Pile!
http://www.woodpilereport.com/
Thanks for the Woodpile link, Ghost. He links to an article there that may well be the most sane piece of writing about the Covid situation that I’ve yet see:
Inside The Hospitals & Why The Lockdown?
Talking about hospitals, I’ve been in two different ones this past week plus a doctor’s office in between (daughter choose an interesting time to break her arm). Ghost towns, everybody masked, nary a cough or sniffle to be heard anywhere. Weirdly, it’s not such a bad time to be hurt since there’s not much waiting going on, and the staff in all places have been great. The one we were at today supposedly had
a few covid patients somewhere, but nowhere near where we were. One more anecdote, from an area in SoCal that’s supposedly had a lot of cases.
Armstrong Economics has penned a letter to the President. This is very good. Three pages in length. Mailed April 13th to Trump, Powell, Mnuchin, McConnell, Scalise and a few others. These are surreal and dangerous times. To express even slight skepticism of the the full trajectory of this shut down, I receive scorn and revulsion from family, friends and neighbors. Sorry, there just ain’t enough dead lately to justify the dismantling of civilization. Whoops… I said it again.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/opinion/letter-to-president-trump-send-it-everywhere-you-can/
Chance of a shower? 100% for me (in the bathroom)!