The Victory Garden versus Fashion in Paris
Some people are paying more attention to their gardens, and becoming more "English," making sure they've got vegetables growing some place. They're chasing out "rodents"--whether deer, gophers, rabbits, or whatever. It's as if we've entered the Victory Garden era again, except there's no victory. We're thankfully pulling out, if slowly, from our long war in the Middle East, and trying to understand what that might mean for us--shoring up homeland security, and more hopefully throwing our wits and intelligence into non-fossil fuel energy. What we've got is a Depression, not a Recession, and there's no one daring to say this, but, still, even people with good managerial jobs are paying attention to things like how much tinfoil they use, or how to use the plastic baggies from the grocery story to store their food in, rather than buying new plastic ziplock baggies. It's so disconcerting to read articles on the New York Times'