Archive for the 'Wealth' Category

A Forest of Ice-Coated Trees

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

For the last three days there has been a coating of ice over the trees and grasses in our little valley, and as we go for walks (in a long line, with the dogs out front, ourselves in the middle, and Rhianna the cat trailing behind), the sun sparkles through the ice and you can […]

Real Wealth

Friday, December 15th, 2006

In my musty old copy of Fatu-Hiva, Thor Heyerdahl explains that ‘wealth in Papenoo was not measured, as among us, by counting what we have; what counted there was how one felt.’
This is certainly an interesting observation, for we hold wealth in mystique. Wealth is the holy grail that will make our lives […]