Loved you saying "Our affinities, and hence our eyes, have been trained to appreciate particular forms of spectacle, much of it on an aesthetic level, in a way that leaves us on the outside... So has urbanization and the increasing disconnection from the means of our survival that accompanied it. The result has been a narrowing of reality in which mere appearance plays a vastly out-sized role."
I should send your article to my HOA ;-) - What you said, that I've quoted above, sums up their rulings & attitudes! :-o|
Loved you saying "Our affinities, and hence our eyes, have been trained to appreciate particular forms of spectacle, much of it on an aesthetic level, in a way that leaves us on the outside... So has urbanization and the increasing disconnection from the means of our survival that accompanied it. The result has been a narrowing of reality in which mere appearance plays a vastly out-sized role."
I should send your article to my HOA ;-) - What you said, that I've quoted above, sums up their rulings & attitudes! :-o|
Thanks!
The attitudes of HOAs are a luxury we can no longer afford, tbh. Every lawn needs to be a vegetable and/or herb garden at this point.
The wholeness in your writing always refreshes me, Kollibri. Thank you!
Thanks, Judy! That means a lot to me!
our protean world - thanks for the mental animation