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Amanda Kovattana: March 2004
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Monday, March 01, 2004. Drive A 100 Miles In His SUV. Walk a Mile in a Man's Shoes; Drive 100 Miles in his SUV. I drove gingerly with this in mind, making sure to double check my clearance with every lane change. Why, I had to wonder, did people buy these things when a minivan holds more and is better engineered for safety? I was suddenly struck by my new status. Usually I was the one on the bicycle looking up at the woman in the SUV. Would she see me? Amanda is ...
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Amanda Kovattana: November 2004
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Monday, November 08, 2004. We can celebrate that our Democracy is alive and well in America (a little voter fraud not withstanding). The people have shown us they want a moral America. You didn't think I was going to take this lying down did you? News broadcasters showed ordinary, nice, sweet people wanting what anybody would want that Valentine's Day weekend. How could it be wrong to let them have the same rights as everyone else? The day after the election, lib...
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Amanda Kovattana: October 2004
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Monday, October 11, 2004. The After Life of Stuff. People used to save things for their kids. Now they were calling me because their mom had died that year leaving them with a houseful of things they didn't have room for, plus all the emotional baggage that comes with having to throw away the belongings of a family member. For such a corporate client, I posted a number of items, one by one, on Excess Access. Which brought me to Freecycle. Twenty swivel chairs lat...
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Amanda Kovattana: September 2004
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Monday, September 27, 2004. Warming Up To The Topic. I asked him. "Oh you cannot really tell something like that unless you have 300 years of data," he said, "there are always periods of severe weather patterns." I dropped it. If the possibility was not apparent to someone who had flown all the way from Florida to take classes in alternative energy at the Solar Living Center, I was at a loss. Still scientists wondered why the world, especially the U.S., w...Well,...
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Amanda Kovattana: April 2005
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Monday, April 25, 2005. A Resistance movement evoked a long-term commitment, a quiet action in defiance of a powerful, controlling government that no longer had the common good in mind. At the Green Festival the weekend after Bush was re-elected, we went to hear Derek Jensen. We are so busy pretending that we have hope," Derek Jensen pointed out, "False hopes bind us to unbelievable situations. Hope is a longing for a future over which we have no agency". Publish...
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Amanda Kovattana: December 2004
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Friday, December 03, 2004. Flight of the Sparrow. Who would have thought that a car would be the answer to my post election funk? Hey, if you can't beat them go shopping! Besides a sporty little car would be a fitting right of passage to the traditional mid-life crisis. Ah the batteries. The batteries, people will tell you, are the problem with electric cars. You just can't get very far before you have to stop for a few hours and charge them. In the end I just pl...
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Amanda Kovattana: March 2005
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Wednesday, March 30, 2005. Prospects in the Post-Petroleum World. The all day workshop that inspired this article was called "Becoming Native: Living in Harmony with this Place: a gathering to envision life in a post petroleum world". The keynote speaker was Richard Heinberg. Author of The Party's Over: War, Oil and the Fate of Industrial Societies. At the door, a tall man from my meditation group. What about discovering more? The rate of discovery has also gone ...
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Amanda Kovattana: April 2004
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Friday, April 23, 2004. Just because there's a nifty recycle symbol on the bottom of the container doesn't mean that it is recyclable. That's the bad news. Of course at BFI they don't really like to tell you that. "Well what do you do with it if it's not recyclable? And even if they do know, people don't always care enough to dispose of hazardous waste properly. After all they didn't create the hazard, they just used it. I worked for a commercial client w...In Eu...
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Amanda Kovattana: January 2005
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Middle-aged musings in interesting times. Tuesday, January 25, 2005. Curiosity about driving a tiny electric car follows me everywhere I take my canary yellow Corbin Sparrow. On my way to a business holiday party a teenager in an SUV pulls up to a stoplight alongside me and rolls down his window so I roll down mine. "What is it? Yes it's the same one," I shout over and he offers to do his imitation of one of the characters in the movie and just as he gets into it, the light changes and off we go. Amanda ...
