I’m on spring break vacation this week, and so this audio edition comes to live from the outskirts of Morrilton, Arkansas, the closest civilization to Petit Jean State Park.
In reading on scarcity, one of the things which you continually will run into is how scarce situation‘s produce and acuity of awareness about what one is really after and what one needs. It’s a kind of strange gift because it draws into clear focus that which is needed in order for there to be a future beyond scarcity. It can devolve into despair, or it can be a moment of panic, but frequently it’s neither of these things, and instead can be clarity about what is the most important.
We live in a less than great age, I think, in which there is ample intellectual work being done but little of it wise, with a lot of words being spoken but few of them deep. This will only get worse, I think.
And yet, though the dark is ahead, it’s not here yet.
The Dusk and Its Gifts