Continues the conversation with Japa Buckner about healthy child development, the Waldorf classroom, and how our ideals are dead things unless we enliven them through our own forces.

Losing a view and a neighbor in one swoop.

Just a bit of silly talk at the Wild Oats health food store, with some dire portents for the future.

I suppose when you go shopping for squid-flavored snacks, you gotta take what comes. Note the dejection which follows when I state I'm not a church-goer.

An attempt to bring the cultures together, and yet somehow wrong. So very, very wrong. And probably not legal. Please forgive me! I meant well.

Forget Deal, Millionaire, and all those impostors. This is the World Cup of coffee and we're playing for all the beans.

Reminder of spring

and what it means

to a dog on a string

who loves peas and beans

Taken from a conversation with Japa Buckner, teacher in the Louisville Waldorf school. Touches on the forces that shape a child's development; importance of rhythms; "vessels" for holding learning; and the relationship between teacher and student as the basis for education.

Some say TR2 jumped the shark, failing to live up to the lofty expectations spawned by TR1. "Worst toilet repair podcast ever" was a typical remark, echoed by thousands. Still, comforted by the fact that even George Lucas made some clinkers, we press on with the stunning finale of the series. And if you're tuning in to toilet repair podcasts, you probably don't have cause to be too critical anyway....

You'll never hear your coffeemaker in quite the same way; I know we don't!