“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Meditations on Modernity
By Vincent H. Anastasi 2023
III. The Medicine If I could take the creek to work, I would - hitch a ride with the swans who swam by yesterday or run the power lines with the squirrels zig-zagging my way high above the traffic, not directly as the crow flies. I need no modern technologies to sustain me, only a pint a week surrounded by slow-souls sojourning together for an hour or two at the local pub - call that medicine, the panacea for this dis-ease: the gnawing canker of modernity.
Part four will be released tomorrow. Part one and two were released previously.
the deepening ground 
By far my favorite “only a pint a week surrounded by slow-souls
sojourning together for an hour or two
at the local pub” ❤️ Are we opening one one day??
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Retirement here I come! One like the Drover’s Arms where slow souls can gather and share life! No cellphones allowed!
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Absolutely no question. No phones. And only the slow souls. Thinking we may not make any money, but that’s never been the point. If we don’t show people who will??
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I love this! Especially “only a pint a week surrounded by slow-souls”
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I’ve been watching All Creatures Great and Small on PBS about James Herriot. Great series and it’s only fueled my desire for a local pub where slow-souls can gather; a place where community is nurtured.
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I love that show!!! I’ve read most of Herriot’s books. My oldest and I are watching that show. We should finish this season’s Christmas finale tonight. We bought the first two seasons too and watch them throughout the year!
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I still need to buy them all. My family loves the show. We finished season three earlier in the week. Wow! No spoilers here, but my wife and I were crying. All six of my children (and my daughter-in-law) look forward to watching together each week.
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Slow-souls enjoying a beer. I could handle that.
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Absolutely! I envy all the small pubs in England. Not getting that in Western PA.
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