I love baseball. It is THE American game. It’s pre-digital; it moves at a human pace. You don’t labor to give concussions to the opposing players or need an astronaut’s sized helmet to survive a play. You don’t have to be 280 pounds. …
I can’t take it anymore…hehe, sorry, but it’s the saddest cliche with which I want to start this essay. Sometimes cliches actually hit the mark. …
“The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves — in their separate, and individual capacities.”
In a discussion with a zombie who told me that…
There are various logical fallacies by which we seem to abide, despite their destructive natures and the pain and ruin they have and will continue to bring us. My favorite is that might makes right. …
Perhaps the whole world…
Years ago, we were camped on the edge of a lovely, small Pennsylvania lake; we had built a sweat lodge, dinner was cooking slowly on the campfire, and the sun was setting gently in the clement August dusk.
A friend of ours rolled in on his…
NIGHT SIT OR DAY SIT?
Your choice if you want to experience nature…
A few winters ago, I wanted to take a little hike through a snowy forest near me. At the very edge of the forest entrance, a chickadee landed on a branch just near my shoulder and gave…
Be honest with yourself. Do you truly see the oncoming climate catastrophe?
There is an iconic scene in Monty Python’s classic film Monty Python And The Holy Grail, wherein two imbecilic guards at the gate, casually munching on apples, spy a charging Sir Lancelot. Confused and lethargic, they procrastinate, allowing Sir Lancelot to violently breach the castle entrance. In the case of…
Does your body look like your environment?
In anthropology there have been many studies related to the adaptation of the human species to the ecosystem within which they live.
As an example, the Inuit of the Northern Barren Lands of Canada were low and squat, and reportedly had (have?) the…
How fast are the trees moving?
Native Americans are fond of an esoteric term, “rez humor”, i.e., reservation humor, a comedic tradition which often evokes sentiments, insights and even philosophic observations that are lost on the outside world, in particular, those who live strictly within a Euro-American or petro-chemical matrix.
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Dear Bill…we’ve crossed the Rubicon…
Dear Bill,
Thank you for your kind words and your piercing questions. Well, you’re a young man witnessing the collapse of the empire. Were you a young Roman or a young German in the Weimar Republic, this experience would not be unlike what’s happening now…
Joe Treadwell
Mr. Treadwell is a teacher, musician, luthier and enthusiastic supporter of sanity, reason and other such modern day trivia. Whittling away: filiusfiddles.com
