Comments on: I am prepared for amazing things to happen http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Vicki http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Vicki Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:19:41 +0000 http://existentialmedia.org/merde/?p=153#comment-308 It's almost like a too-good-to-be-true secret: setbacks are opportunities, open doors to the life you want to live, the person you feel yourself to be. My car broke down last night and I am, though nervous a little, so excited about finally being carless. It’s almost like a too-good-to-be-true secret: setbacks are opportunities, open doors to the life you want to live, the person you feel yourself to be. My car broke down last night and I am, though nervous a little, so excited about finally being carless.

]]> By: Ariel http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Ariel Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:00:37 +0000 http://existentialmedia.org/merde/?p=153#comment-298 I thought of Wendell Berry when I read this, Matthew. I'll just post his thing here, cause it's so good, too. I think I like the way we are moving beyond the women and men working together on more 'household duties' because that's always what has been to going back to it because that's what is sustainable and what will benefit all... households apply to all households here, i think.... "The modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming. Nothing productive is done there. Such work as is done there is done at the expense of the resident couple or family, and to the profit of suppliers of energy and household technology. For entertainment, the inmates consume television or purchase other consumable diversion elsewhere. There are, however, still some married couples who understand themselves as belonging to their marriage, to each other, and to their children. What they have they have in common, and so, to them, helping each other does not seem merely to damage their ability to compete against each other. To them, “mine” is not so powerful or necessary a pronoun as “ours.” This sort of marriage usually has at its heart a household that is to some extent productive. The couple, that is, makes around itself a household economy that involves the work of both wife and husband, that gives them a measure of economic independence and self-employment, a measure of freedom, as well as a common ground and a common satisfaction. Such a household economy may employ the disciplines and skills of housewifery, of carpentry and other trades of building and maintenance, of gardening and other branches of subsistence agriculture, and even of woodlot management and wood-cutting. It may also involve a “cottage industry” of some kind, such as a small literary enterprise." -WB I thought of Wendell Berry when I read this, Matthew. I’ll just post his thing here, cause it’s so good, too. I think I like the way we are moving beyond the women and men working together on more ‘household duties’ because that’s always what has been to going back to it because that’s what is sustainable and what will benefit all… households apply to all households here, i think.…
“The modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming. Nothing productive is done there. Such work as is done there is done at the expense of the resident couple or family, and to the profit of suppliers of energy and household technology. For entertainment, the inmates consume television or purchase other consumable diversion elsewhere.

There are, however, still some married couples who understand themselves as belonging to their marriage, to each other, and to their children. What they have they have in common, and so, to them, helping each other does not seem merely to damage their ability to compete against each other. To them, “mine” is not so powerful or necessary a pronoun as “ours.”

This sort of marriage usually has at its heart a household that is to some extent productive. The couple, that is, makes around itself a household economy that involves the work of both wife and husband, that gives them a measure of economic independence and self-employment, a measure of freedom, as well as a common ground and a common satisfaction. Such a household economy may employ the disciplines and skills of housewifery, of carpentry and other trades of building and maintenance, of gardening and other branches of subsistence agriculture, and even of woodlot management and wood-cutting. It may also involve a “cottage industry” of some kind, such as a small literary enterprise.” –WB

]]> By: Matthew http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Matthew Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:11:46 +0000 http://existentialmedia.org/merde/?p=153#comment-265 <strike>"on the wagon"</strike> in the trailer “on the wagon“
in the trailer

]]> By: Alisha http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Alisha Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:59:39 +0000 http://existentialmedia.org/merde/?p=153#comment-263 SO COOL HOW THIS HAPPENED. I am jumping on the wagon, too... SO COOL HOW THIS HAPPENED. I am jumping on the wagon, too…

]]> By: Matthew http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Matthew Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:56:26 +0000 http://existentialmedia.org/merde/?p=153#comment-261 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. That's what you get for sharing with me ;-) HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

That’s what you get for sharing with me ;-)

]]> By: Laura http://existentialmedia.org/merde/2009/01/i-am-prepared-for-amazing-things-to-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-260 Laura Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:53:08 +0000 http://existentialmedia.org/merde/?p=153#comment-260 JINX! JINX!

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