Aug 27 2007

A Week of Links

Published by James at 8:50 am under Economics, Family News, Peoria, Thoughts on Community

I’ve been doing better at posting lately, and don’t want to get people into the habit of not checking my blog, but this week is a crazy one at work and I’ll not have time for much personal writing.

So I’m going to post some interesting (at least to me) links this week. I’ll start with the best (so you’ll be more confident in following the rest of them–seeing the fine quality of this one). This is a recent post by my goodly wife, and it was a reminder of why I have become very different in my approach to community and progress over the past few years.

I can’t help thinking that we are too quick to do away with our history in the name of progress. A splash of Peoria piquancy was lost, leaving bland commercial sameness. And so, as I load my 6 pounds of baby carrots into the van, I sadly avert my eyes from that muddy, empty spot over yonder.

Read the rest here!

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