Carding Brushes vs. Mass Delusion

[photos of Newfoundland hat & mittens, showing construction; property of my mother-in-law]
Jan 2, 2009 continued

"Each night, without knowing it, you return to the unmanifested Source of all life when you enter the the stage of deep, dreamless sleep, and then reemerge again in the morning, replenished." — Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

Stopped by Portland Fiber Gallery to get carding brushes (finally!) and a little roving for making Newfoundland Mittens, and got a handmade bear for Baxie's birthday. Finally connected witht his fabulously vibrant palce in Portland.

Of course, visa card transaction used the internet. do I have to give credit/debit cards this year? That might solve the problem mentioned on previous page (spending too much money).

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Other inspirations:
— Phil Haskell who campaigned last fall for Maine House of Representatives door-to-door in person.


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A sense of interdependence is vital to world peace. Are we achieving that through the internet? I don't know.

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Mass delusion: that being continually hooked up digitally is vital and necessary. I'm not talking about people who depend on the internet for their livelihoods or for keeping in touch or for any number of other useful reasons. I'm talking about the way we use each other to continually reaffirm this delusion that constant contact with the internet is vital to life.

An obsessive relationship with the internet is perchance a case of mass delusion: You are constantly online sending me messages, so I must be or I might miss something. What are we really missing? Everything. Life is right now. And we are missing this.

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I was dissatisfied with the constant communication with people who weren't really there. Jeff & I independently concluded that this was what some people used to refer to as insanity.