If it's true that we are leaving the era of cheap oil, then the societal down-/re-scaling we are approaching need not be something to be feared. The return to communal relationships, working intimately with your neighbors, localized food production and enterprise, and human empowerment through walking and biking may be the best thing that ever happened to us and provide us with healthier bodies and more satisfied spirits than we could ever hope to get from the current culture of amusing ourselves to death.
One messiah leading the way to this brave new (but familiar) world is David Ansel, The Soup Peddler of Austin, Texas. His new book, The Soup Peddler's Slow & Difficult Soups: Recipes and Reveries is more than just a collection of recipes. Like he says in his book's introduction, "It's about how the mundane aspects of life, such as food and work, can be utterly consuming and rewarding, as long as they are humbly infused with your spirit and creativity. It's about how, when you involve your neighbors and friends in this joie de vivre, your community becomes an inspired and inspiring place. Finally, it's about how sharing yourself in this way foments tikkun olam, the repair of the world, which is a hopeful, participatory theory unto which one must cleave when civilization appears to be in rapid decline."
Visit The Soup Peddler online at www.thesouppeddler.com.
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With a blink of the genie's eye, *POOF* the land in Canada was forever made fertile for farming.
Bin Laden was amazed, so he said, "I want a wall around Afghanistan, so that no infidels, Jews, or Americans can come into our precious state."
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