fast moving sloth

 

 

current scenario upon opening of the patio door

Another couple of quotes I had saved ages ago and which pop up now that I am killing time while waiting, still waiting for the phone call from the surgery department. Instead my lovely GP calls to cheer me on.

It has been heartening to read your comments to the chocolate quote. I could respond and write about the cardiovascular and gastrological health benefits of chocolate, especially dark chocolate (numerous, well researched, click here to read about it) and in particular, the beneficial effects of chocolate on mental health because chocolate contains endorphins, which are the little cousins of magic mushrooms.

But I could also dwell on the fact (FACT) that due to climate change, we are fast approaching a chocolate crisis which is a double sided hardship because not only will the price of cocoa rise exponentially, making chocolate a very expensive and rare luxury before we know it, the people depending on growing and selling cocoa beans are already beginning to suffer greatly as rising temperatures and erratic rainfall dramatically hammer cocoa harvests. So, get it while you can (afford it).

 

Naivety is one thing, ignoring the incontinent elephant in the corner of your living room is quite another.

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What you people call collapse means living in the same conditions as the people who grow your coffee.

Vinay Gupta

 

            Wisdom is chasing you but you are faster.
 
Nigerian proverb 

Like our planet, sloths are actually moving extremely fast all the time, so fast that it seems like they’re not moving at all. We are wrong about sloths; they’re quick and fast. Science will prove this one day.

Michael Kleber-Diggs
 

The fact that people seem happy enough to cite heat as a number of degrees is surely a sign of what Adorno called reification, by which he meant the habitual response in modern culture to abstract and then quantify even lived experience as though it were money. If you do this long enough, the abstraction comes alive and seems self empowered like a person or a god. 

Michael Taussig