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I'm really interested in reading about water and the western US. I read "Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct and the Rise of Los Angeles" a couple of years ago and and am intrigued by western water politics and technology
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Ecuador has been a place I've wanted to visit for some time. Now, after a year of home-sequestering and travel-dreaming, I'm starting to plan again. Ms. Pitts' book has been a wonderful and engaging read - actually, the way I read travel guides is in
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“The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.”
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“patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
― Works of Eugene Victor Debs
― Works of Eugene Victor Debs
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to imagine.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
“No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem existence than to this very life here and now.
Moreover, the Buddhist teachings and practices that had the most impact upon me did so precisely because they heightened my sense of being fully alive in and responsive to this world.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Moreover, the Buddhist teachings and practices that had the most impact upon me did so precisely because they heightened my sense of being fully alive in and responsive to this world.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
“Buddhism has become for me a philosophy of action and responsibility. It provides a framework of values, ideas, and practices that nurture my ability to create a path in life, to define myself as a person, to act, to take risks, to image things differently, to make art. The more I prize Gotama's teachings free from the matrix of Indian religious thought in which they are entrenched and the more I come to understand how his own life unfolded in the context of his times, the more I discern a template for living that I can apply at this time in this increasingly secular and globalized world.”
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
― Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
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Jeff’s 2025 Year in Books
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