Compost

An excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening, reprinted in 1977, 31 years after the original!
"COMPOST: In the soft, warm bosom of a decaying compost heap, a transformation of life to death and back again is taking place. Life is leaving the living plants of yesterday, but in their death these leaves and stalks pass on their vitality to the coming generations of future seasons. Here in a dank and mouldy pile the wheel of life is turning.
Compost is more than a fertilizer or a healing agent for the soil's wounds. It is a symbol of continuing life. Nature herself made compost before man first walked the earth and before the first dinosaur reared its head about a primeval swamp. Leaves falling to the forest floor and slowly mouldering are composting. The dead grass of the meadow seared by winter's frost is being composted by the dampness of the earth beneath. The birds, the insects and the animals contributed their bodies to the vast and continuing soil rebuilding program of nature."

Take that to your next dics for breakfast!

I called in dead today
I forgot how great that is
mostly it's best on sunny days
I remember in the dead of winter
calling in sick in winnipeg
and feeling so luxurious lying in the rays
like a cat
today being warm
I took off to the woods, where no one would find me
and I read, slept, daydreamed, watched an eagle overhead
finally feeling at peace
a little
with the decision I've made
to go home
I'm so happy and I can do this
without guilt
I'm so happy!

Elitism

isms.... let's not go too long on this. but let's call it what it is.

Why you hatin' on the hipsters?

they like to shop.
They like to dance
they like Music.
I've heard they like to think they're better than everyone else
though I haven't seen that

So you don't like hipsters....
Because of their "better than thou" attitude, you say,
and you "feel sorry for them"
um.....your arguments are hollow. or shallow.
and dare I say, they come across as "better than thou"

so what's this really about?
Is it bad that people have found their collective community identity and have fun together?
(Is this any different than mods or punks or goths or ...any group who share common interests, ideas, and adornment?)
You say you've outgrown the need to be "like that"
I hope one day you outgrow the need to put down the "other".