You want to be a missionary?You got that missionary zeal?Let a stranger change your lifeHow's that make you feel?You want to be a writerBut you don't know how or whenFind a quiet placeUse a humble penYou want to talk, talk, talk about …
When you have names and forms,know that they are provisional.When you have institutions,know where their functions should end.Knowing when to stop,you can avoid any danger.—The Tao Te Ching, ch. 32
Lately I keep noticing a pattern present in much of the evil and destruction …
Having come from a lifetime of study, work, and play in computer science to a summer interning at Eighth Day Farm, I've learned that ecological farming doesn't have much in common with computer programming, and that God is more farmer than programmer.
A computer programmer solves a problem by dividing …