Logan

Here's a thought: Even a rocking chair doesn't make airports fun places to hang out. Logan, and several other airports now have ubiquitous rocking chairs in which to sit. It's fun for a few minutes, but then it passes.

Our book group chose "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" and "The Omnivoire's Dilemma" as our book club books for the summer. I finished the first, and am waiting for my wife to finish the second. Kingsolver's book, however, is not a doom and gloom rant about the evils of capitalism, but a description of a journey, a call to us all to move back to the soil and away from the corporate agribusiness that is so abtly characterized in the second book. It called to mind another writer who spoke to his generation of a simpler life. Thoreau. Interestingly, Kingsolver pointed out how the "freedom" of the local farm ties one to a difficult schedule. Thoreau pointed out in his book that "I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of". To escape capitalism, Thoreau went to the woods (with the odd dinner with Emerson); Kingsolver went to the farm. Each found happiness in work that the rest of us have passed on; each counted the cost of modern life.

Julie got me a copy of Walden for the flight. I can reflect on this more while I wait for my crack at the anti capitalist Omnivore.

Plan leaves in an hour. I can't wait.