Sunday, May 30, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Memorial Weekend Sale
Zazzle has a sale for up to 50% off this weekend. Come visit River Jude for cards, mugs, gifts, and invitations--and visit some of Zazzle's other great shops as well.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
White Flower Matching Invitations, Postage, Gifts
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Unhappy, or Depressed?
Matthew Crawford has a Ph.D. but repairs motorcyles for a living (and, obviously, writes). Here's an excerpt from an article of his about medication:
Gotta love a man who quotes Dalrymple.
Crawford has a book out: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
The semantic shift wherein “unhappiness” is replaced by “depression” has real consequences: Our self-understanding becomes infected by medical categories that may not be appropriate, issuing in a kind of moral inarticulacy. With this comes a different disposition toward one’s own experience.
Theodore Dalrymple, a former prison psychiatrist in Britain, suggests that an overly broad concept of depression implies that dissatisfaction with life is itself pathological, a medical condition, which it is the responsibility of the doctor to alleviate by medical means. Everyone has a right to health; depression is unhealthy; therefore everyone has a right to be happy (the opposite of being depressed). This idea in turn implies that one’s state of mind, or one’s mood, is or should be independent of the way that one lives one’s life, a belief that must deprive human existence of all meaning, radically disconnecting reward from conduct.
Gotta love a man who quotes Dalrymple.
Crawford has a book out: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
"Today's Best Award" Winner
Hooray! This thank you note won Zazzle's Today's Best Award on May 14, 2010.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Victorian Trivia
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Work with Your Hands
Matthew B. Crawford, discussing the benefits of hands-on, physical labor:
Work forms us, and deforms us, with broad public consequences.
The visceral experience of failure seems to have been edited out of the career trajectories of gifted students. It stands to reason, then, that those who end up making big decisions that affect all of us don’t seem to have much sense of their own fallibility, and of how badly things can go wrong even with the best of intentions ...
In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don’t think you’ll see a yellow sign that says “Think Safety!” as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make. Why not encourage gifted students to learn a trade, if only in the summers, so that their fingers will be crushed once or twice before they go on to run the country?
There is good reason to suppose that responsibility has to be installed in the foundation of your mental equipment — at the level of perception and habit. There is an ethic of paying attention that develops in the trades through hard experience. It inflects your perception of the world and your habitual responses to it. This is due to the immediate feedback you get from material objects and to the fact that the work is typically situated in face-to-face interactions between tradesman and customer.
Medieval or Renaissance Weddings
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Friday, May 14, 2010
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