1. Debbie and I are both reading A Natural History of Empty Lots. We are both having a great experience. Debbie joined me at The Lounge shortly before five this afternoon. Ed and I had had a great hour or so yakkin' about all kinds of stuff before Debbie arrived. Debbie and I launched into a discussion of Empty Lots, as far as we've read. The book is taking us out of our usual way of experiencing the world and challenging us to be more attentive, take charge of how we employ our senses, to be open to surprise, and to resist habitual ways of thinking and doing things as well as to resist the ways entities, especially money making ones, provide us with prefabricated responses to the world around us and how we think about it.
2. A fun aspect of our discussion while seated at the bar was how this book calls up memories of other books we've read. For Debbie, the book connects to Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and I keep going back in my mind to Bill McKibben's book The End of Nature and Lulu Miller's Why Fish Don't Exist.
I'll just say that I'm fascinated much more by the disorder, not the order, of the natural world and the biological aspects of the human world. Miller's book explores this. In addition, when I first read McKibben's book in 1989 it accelerated my interest in and curiosity about the relationship between human beings and the natural world and I've read a lot of books and articles about this subject since then.
3. Before heading up to The Lounge around 3:30, I baked a block of tofu cubed and I made a red curry sauce. Once back home, I cooked a variety of vegetables in the red curry sauce and added in the tofu along with some kaffir lime leaves.
I prepared a pot of basmati rice, too, and once the vegetables were tender, Debbie and I prepared ourselves delicious bowls of medium spicy red curry sauce over the vegetables and rice.
We then balanced out having eaten spicy food with small bowls of Extra Triple Fudge Brownie ice cream.
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