tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18676999.post114704251764295277..comments2024-02-27T01:52:06.519-08:00Comments on Kent's Bike Blog: Stuff about Stuff, Virtual Stuff and Other StuffKent Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12906603746565831689noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18676999.post-1147101101989229962006-05-08T08:11:00.000-07:002006-05-08T08:11:00.000-07:00I think living without stuff is really hard. I th...I think living without stuff is really hard. I think living with stuff is really hard. I think living with contradictions is good. Its the space between the contraditions that holds the tao.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18676999.post-1147100218415152252006-05-08T07:56:00.000-07:002006-05-08T07:56:00.000-07:00Great post, Ken. Nowadays talking about simplicity...Great post, Ken. Nowadays talking about simplicity can be taken rather lightly, the way some people take Thoreau or even Whitman because it is so easy to over quote them. But how can one not quote them? (What was it that they put in the water back then? American Transcendentalism was / is such an under-valued philosophical school.) Yet, some concepts are so formidable – indeed so formidably “simple” – that they escape us entirely. That north-eastern school surely hit it on the head. I sympathise with you and hear your words rather loudly. I’ve been struggling to simplify for years – and what does one simplify to, as you so very well suggest? – that it comes as no surprise to see that simplifying isn’t simple at all. It may be one of the most complicated endeavours one can undertake. (By the way, your post is totally bike related!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com