Meigs County, You’re Important Too!

May 26, 2009 7 Comments » Uncategorized

Elisa Young and MeigsCAN represent the archetypal biblical story of David and Goliath, or the popular conception of “the underdog.” However, rather than working on behalf of herself as an individual, she works to maintain a worldview/ way of life that has been revered in theory for a long time: live off of and respect the land.

While the coal plants are not on her land and are a few miles away, such large electrical producers create a lot of far-reaching waste. The need for electricity is certainly important, but at what cost for the people who desire to keep life simple, slow, and satisfying? Continue reading…

Hello to You!

May 19, 2009 0 Comments » Uncategorized

Winnie-the-Pooh on the Bridge

Thanks for checking out my personal blog from Being And Doing, Inc!

This is the spot where I will be keeping up a pseudo-journal with my own musings and insights into the work that Katie, Andrew, and I are doing. I guess this is my aspect of the Being in “Being And Doing.”

I’m not sure how the other two plan on organizing and developing their blogs; we all deserve a lil’ privacy. I can tell you that I have been studying philosophy for the past few years and my mind is still traveling in that wavelength, so I will be trying to see how every individual experience that we have relates to some universal or archetypal understanding that I have (whatever that means to you, I’m not sure; but you will get a taste of it very shortly).

I want to find out what connects us all and what pushes us apart. Universal concepts are simple because they are shared by ALL things, but most of the time they are the hardest to comprehend. I hope I am able to chisel a little bit at the mystery of life, and I hope that it is interesting for you to read.

I’ll leave my intro with a quote from one of my favorite philosophers: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”