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IN P R IN T
C arrying W ater as a Way of Liie
A Homesteader’s History
(About Time Pros; 1997)
By Linda Tatelbaum
It’s an economic story.
I never would have said so back in the days of rusted red Volkswagen,
faded pink trailer parked under milkweed in an overgrown field. To build a
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house, to plant a garden, to make a life - self-sufficient, simple. I didn t un­
derstand, in 1977, how deeply a homesteader's history is rooted in the eco­
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nomic forces that surround her. How deeply anyone’s history.
I would have said it was aesthetics, philosophy, botany. 1 would have called
it poetry, back in the kerosene lamp days, the hauling water days. I would
have claimed to be putting down roots and bringing forth greens, making a
life.
But really, it comes down to making a living negotiating the complex dy­
namic between people, land, money, work. Between me, home, income, career.
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Making do vs. doing without,
Doing-it-yourself vs. hiring it out,
Growing your own vs. buying it.
Working at home vs. "working out”
Which used to mean going off the farm to work, not weight-lifting, though
I suppose it amounts to the same thing. Building muscle, discipline, char­
acter, endurance.
I still say it’s not only about money, this story. It’s about saving some­
thing besides money. Save time save the planet save face save water save
space save the whales save the children save scraps save seeds save energy
Save your breath
Ju st do what you can.
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W hen Elephants Weep
Pass T he Butterworms
The Emotional Lives Of Animals
(Delta; 1995)
Bv leffrey M oussaieff M asson and Susan McCarthy
No one who has lived with animals would deny their capacity to feel. But scientists continue to do just that. This
(Vintage Books, 1997)
By Tim Cahill
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JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON
In Pass the Butterworms, Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where
he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan
and masters the “ Mongolian death trot”; to the North Pole, where he goes for a
pleasure dip in 3frdegree water, to Irian New Guinea, where he spends a com­
panionable evening with members of one of the last headhunting tribes. Whether
observing family values among the Stone Age Dani people, or sampling delica­
cies like sauteed sago beetle and premasticated manioc beer, Cahill is a fount of
arcane information and a master of self-deprecating humor.
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groundbreaking book, the first since Darwin's time to explore in the animal kingdom, proves what laypeople have
always believed that animals love and suffer, they are lonely, jealous, disappointed, or curious; they mourn, they worry,
they hate, they anticipate happiness .they feel. Meet;
Buffalo who ice skate - for the joy of it
Flint, a chimpanzee who mourned the loss of his mother until he died from grief
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Koko, a bashful gorilla proficient in sign language who love to play house with dolls - but only when nobody is looking
Crows who dam aged the gold onion domes of the Kremlin - by using it for a slide
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•Alex, an African grey parrot with an astonishing vocabulary who, when left at the veterinarian s office, shrieked,
“Com e here! I love you. I’m sorry. I want to go back ”
Based on scientific studies and anecdotiTilled field notes of scores of biologists, ethologists, animal tramert and an.m
behaviorists, this extraordimuy book - a. once heartiending, impeccably researched, and compulsively readable-shows jus. how
d,M,r»lv a n im a ls , in the wild or in captivity, experience emotions...including elephants who weep with tears that wrench our hearts.
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