Author: Andrew Taggart

• July 3, 2011

  Payment is also love

  In the following, I offer a set of norms concerning how money ought to be understood.  I also describe where money  figures into my overall account of running a way of life business. The fact that, under late capitalism, money is often nasty and brutish does not dissuade or defer me; it can be otherwise; we…
• July 2, 2011

  Into the tea room…

  The following excerpt is from Okakura’s The Book of Tea (1908). Okakura’s little book describes the emergence of the tea ceremony in the sixteenth century as well as the importance of tea to the “divinization” of small things within Japanese culture. Only listen: The simplicity of the tea-room and its freedom from vulgarity make it truly…
• July 1, 2011

  Faces of busyness & patience

  Update: Wanna be less busy? There’s still time! No “Skype Walk-in” this Saturday, but there are still openings for the upcoming “Skype Workshop.” Would another day work for “Skype Walk-in”? Let me know! — 1. The man in Midtown values the objects of sense above those of contemplation. He checks his BlackBerry, his watch; touches his pant leg;…
• June 30, 2011

  Work today: longer hours + more time with kids = burn-out

  Update: Wanna be less busy? There’s still time! No “Skype Walk-in” this Thursday or Saturday, but there are still openings for the upcoming “Skype Workshop.” Would another day work for “Skype Walk-in”? Let me know! — Sighting yesterday: Black woman walking in Central Park. Pink cell phone under bra. On top of left breast. Symptom of busyness. Sign…
• June 29, 2011

  Good-bye, cell phone; hello, birdies

  Update: Wanna be less busy? There’s still time! No “Skype Walk-in” this Thursday or Saturday, but there are still openings for the upcoming “Skype Workshop.” Would another day work for “Skype Walk-in”? Let me know! — So you got rid of your cell phone? Yeah. What are you going to do now? Eat, pray, and love. Oh,…