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I arrived a minute before the showing of the documentary Examined Life (2008) at the local state university and secured an open seat in the back of the lecture hall. Judging by the attendance, it seemed that the university might also be providing free beer and pizza. About 100 students and staff, and a group of officially unaffiliated individuals like myself, were also in the audience. The turn-out encouraged me and provided empirical evidence that a remnant of this generation of students could be taking philosophical questions seriously. Or, it might have been that their professors had promised a generous dollop of whip cream extra credit on top of their pumpkin pie grades for showing up and writing a synopsis of the film and the discussion afterwards. The Examined Life (2008) http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife/ is a documentary by Astra Taylor, of 9 modern thinkers expounding philosophically--while walking, standing, travelling by electric wheel chair, even rowing a boat or ...

It has been interesting moving into a neighborhood where most people really takes their lawn care seriously. In Columbia, the fact that I mowed my yard weekly made me a star pupil. Where I live now, I was getting by with a "D" and I was striving hard! God humbled me using lowly grass. There is a lot more to grass than I imagined. Like everything I am ignorant of, my lack of information made me blind to the complexity under my feet. What has finally knocked me out of the ring of lawn care endeavors, was this summer's crabgrass. I deliberately avoided putting down pre-emergent to keep the crab grass from hatching because I wanted to embrace a more organic posture. Last year, doing so, didn't seem to cause a problem. This summer, from what I understand, was ideal for a crabgrass offensive...a lot of rain, a lot sun. Large sections of our yard fell like Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union at the end of WWII. I had a Yalta Yard and Communist Crabgrass. At the height of th...