this elegant, well-formatted diary is a brilliant example of why blogs are becoming the medium-of-choice for me and countless digital others.

just....superb.

frankly blown away to see this ET concept taking wings so quickly and strongly; deepest thanks to all of you, for affirming that there is compassionate intelligence alive and well on the planet, and so far ahead of mine and most i meet, that i come here, spesso e volontieri, to humbly learn from masters of relevant data-capture and retransmission.

as donovan said so many years ago:

'might as well try and catch the wind'

singing is also 'catching the wind'!

and through increased oxidisation of the blood, turning it into different forms of energy....whatever we choose, really.

it occurs to me that living in windy places lowers chi, according to chinese medicine, so humans are not likely to be territorially jealous of winfarms for residential reasons.

unless they want to put up their own windmills, live off the grid, and wear scarves a lot.

which brings me to my next point: while being all in favour of windfarms, especially offshore ones, it's a pity that they are by default perpetuators of a relatively ancient, ugly, obsolete, and high-maintenance centralised energy system.

i accept it, but personally i think we should be regionalising energy more, and so look forward to solar, methane, biodiesel, woodgas etc more fervently than i do mega-super-ultra icons to bigness, (as well as bizniz), further furthering the control freakery of the usual suspects who have abetted in bringing us to the brink of social collapse, and who have been enabling the daily haemorraging of millions of man-hour-capital-money-units to shady, dubiously motivated, opaque leaders of foreign lands, whose histories do not always encourage happy memories of friendship.

small niggle though, and one we can surely indulge ourselves in at greater length once we have turned the peak oil corner.

the devastatingly intelligent solution of paying farmers to host these beasts is screaming for some pol to ride all the way to the top with.

CAP is so unpopular, yet its motive to keep the people on the land is noble.

5,000 people a day arrive in bombay, to live.

if we don't weave the destiny of rural communities into any national 'economic success story', we risk the (sadly undereported) suicides such as occurring in northern india, as people, without whom we might starve but for their humble toil, are relegated to the back of the economic bus, or left standing at the station.

ghandi's little spinning wheels were greatly symbolic for this reason.

as long as we have energy-hogging cities, i suggest we consider solar panels to be the new spinning wheels, symbolising independence from top-down totalitarianism, where it be of the stalinist, or IMF variety.

we all owe our existence to the generations of farmers, meek or wild, in our ancestries. they deserve respect and support, and right now they get too little of either.

there would be a strange kind of pride for them in their powering the cities, not just with vittles, but also with kilowatts.

the best and brightest from the countryside has been sucked into the gravity of cities for centuries.

isn't it time for the tide to turn?


'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty