snail mail snapshots

incoming mail from singapore,
spain, and the east coast

a package for a friend

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

moscow, id farmers market

Image
one thing i absolutely am in love with is the farmers market in my college town. the farmers market runs may through october due to weather. there are tons of booths for fresh food, handcrafted items, flowers, and even hand welded metal personally created in front of you. i love farmers markets because i get to support local businesses as well as get fresh, farm grown food straight from the source.  farm fresh veggies blind date with a book at bookpeople of moscow posters at the storm cellar in moscow bookpeople of moscow's sign flower sign at the storm cellar handcrafted & homemade soaps & skincare products kombucha stand i bought plants and some flowers candles at the storm cellar vinyl's for sale patches and pins at the storm cellar posters at the storm cellar sign in front of bookpeople of moscow
Read more

philosophy talk: the way things are

According to Ishmael , how did things come to be this way? In your opinion, how did things come to be this way? The novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn tells the tale of ‘how things came to be this way’. The narrator sees an ad in the newspaper: “teacher seeks student”. He answers the ad to find the teacher is a gorilla, Ishmael who can communicate telepathically. The narrator learns from Ishmael ‘how things came to be this way’ through Socratic questioning. In this paper, I will explain Daniel Quinn’s writings of ‘how things came to be this way’, as well as elaborate on my own ideas. According to Ishmael, there are two groups, the Takers and the Leavers. He begins with the story of the Takers by asking the narrator to explain his culture’s creation myth. The narrator first insists he does not know of such a thing, until he comes to the realization that there is a story told and accepted by the takers. He starts the story with the big bang and evolution, stating that “s...
Read more