• [[I'm back]]!
  • It sure took some time.
  • But [[per aspera ad astra]]. I try to enjoy the ride :)
  • I am, after all, often
    • [[free from suffering]]

I worked half a day as I was sick; cold symptoms, nothing terrible though. I attended two meetings and did writing.

Then I read [[Aaron Copland]] on music, thought and wrote about [[Moloch]].

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I eead the [[Dalai Lama]] and [[Thubten Chodron]]. I'm in chapter 2 of book 2: [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]].

2024-02-12

• Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
  • Subtitle: The Science and the Fiction of Communism.
  • Heard about it from the This Machine Kills podcast.
  • Very interesting. A modern day update on the topic of [[Socialism: Utopian and Scientific]].
  • Critiques a bunch of things I've read recently as utopian, in the sense of lacking any practical route from the here and now to there.
    • Fair comment - though I've appreciated them, I've thought similar.
  • Not got to their own prescription for transformation yet.