Just in from the work in progress. Framing the new bathroom, hall and kitchen area. Passed our first county inspection today, 'plumbing groundwork', now the hole in the concrete slab is filled with sand bedded drain pipes and new concrete slab. We tend to think of all the recent advances in technology, Moore's law and Chuck Yeager's right stuff, but indoor plumbing deserves some love. I'll bet that the folks in Sendai and all along the Japanese coast would like to be appreciating the simple things in existence these days. If on one hand you could have functioning indoor plumbing and on the other a nuclear reactor, I wonder what the lasting choice will be?
Today's Staff Pick is a from Yale-Nota Bene, Yale University Press, published in 2004 in the Terry Lecture series, One World, the Ethics of Globalization, by Peter Singer. Singer asks a lot of questions about our modern life and the role of nations as citizens of the world. The questions need to be answered. The book is drawn from the lectures and it it retains in written form the organization and clarity that a good teacher delivers. This book is hard to put down. I wanted to push off the carpentry for a morning of coffee and political philosophy. When we open in May, you can find it in the Philosophy/Contemporary Culture section, Used, As New condition.
The news today is horrific and volatile. The weather here was spring like, blue skies and the sun on the beloved Cascades. Sometimes those are hard to reconcile. In the back of our minds the arrival time of our 'big one' looms.
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