The thing about goods from India is that they have a short growing season in Maine.
All the gauzy cottons and homemade paper journals are fine for our 2.5 months of summer, already past. But Gandhi did not have to contend with winter at his ashram. It is no wonder my vow of poverty back then in the impressionable years lasted only two months. Then the hands started bleeding from stress eczema and the search was on for heavier jackets, a car with a heater, and a job. None of these see-through garments today will do, and a gumcha for a blanket is like a dainty linen hanky in the northeast winds to come.
Youthful Idealism
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Carl Jung
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
H. L. Mencken