Thanks so much for the kind words! Really enjoyed your essay. I’m a big William Morris/Paris Commune fan myself, and I really appreciated the way you brought those to bear on contemporary luxury. Great stuff!
Sadly, I can relate to this. And it has led to great exhaustion for me. And I blame myself for not being disciplined enough for indulging in pathetic luxuries.
You’ve given this feeling a name, and for that I am grateful
What an opening paragraph! Sums up how I feel about most of my engagements with the world. Your other pieces are wonderful too. I've just had my first permaculture ~experience~, which I just wrote about, and embodied your interpretation of luxury. Look forward to your next writing.
Thanks so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I'll have to give that a try. I've done the frozen bananas in the juicer trick as an ice cream substitute many times, and I highly recommend it, too!
i spent a month this last winter on an abandoned mango orchard in Ecuador - life changing mangos indeed
That sounds rad!
it really was, magical place Ecuador, crime is increasing though
Excited to have found this substack! You write in a funny and extremely convincing way.
This question of luxury matters a whole lot to the kind of future we're going to build.
I wrote about it from my spot in North London, with a little help from William Morris and the Paris Communards: https://gregfrey.substack.com/p/well-what-do-we-want
It's what you said, but with others!
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Thanks so much for the kind words! Really enjoyed your essay. I’m a big William Morris/Paris Commune fan myself, and I really appreciated the way you brought those to bear on contemporary luxury. Great stuff!
“spiritual poverty of luxuries”
Sadly, I can relate to this. And it has led to great exhaustion for me. And I blame myself for not being disciplined enough for indulging in pathetic luxuries.
You’ve given this feeling a name, and for that I am grateful
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What an opening paragraph! Sums up how I feel about most of my engagements with the world. Your other pieces are wonderful too. I've just had my first permaculture ~experience~, which I just wrote about, and embodied your interpretation of luxury. Look forward to your next writing.
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it!
Thanks so much, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I'll have to give that a try. I've done the frozen bananas in the juicer trick as an ice cream substitute many times, and I highly recommend it, too!
Love the yogurt/labni idea, haven’t tried that before!