Tag: recycling

• A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise

  I’d like to think I’m generous; I may not have as much to contribute as Bill Gates, but I have to hope it’s the thought that counts, not the amount. Still, there has always been a nagging feeling that I could give more if I were -what?- more aware of the needs of others? More…

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  March 15, 2023

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  consequentialism, demandingness objection, ethics, Family, generosity, Michael Mitchell, morals, philosophy, recycling, Tufts University

• Recycling the Old

  For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… Really? It made sense when I was young, I suppose -when all of Time was ahead. When I needed to think there was some order to things. That past and future meant old and new. But as the years slip past, I…

  gozzter

  July 30, 2015

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  BBC news, bisphosphonates, bone metastases, breast cancer, Ecclesiastes, glitazone, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lancet, new, old, Parkinson’s disease, Phoenix, recycling, Talmud, Wisdom, wisdom of elders