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Amish

August 15, 2011 Posted by Issa under Think About It
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This post originally appeared on March 20th, 2009 on my now-defunct blog Right to Bleed and appears here in a slightly modified form. Reading about different cultures is often interesting to me, and while the Amish are right here in the United States they definitely qualify as a different culture. When I have escapist fantasies (tropical-island, alone-in-the-mountains) sometimes I imagine myself running away to be an Amish person (assuming that would even be possible). The… Keep Reading

Rewind – Privacy

January 28, 2010 Posted by Issa under Think About It
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A while back I was driving through Florida and passed a house in a little town with a falling apart fence. That fence, for some reason, sparked a whole train of interesting thought for me. It’s a little convoluted, but let’s see if I can communicate the train of thought.

The fence was theoretically a privacy fence, but it was old and had lots of missing boards. It provided some lack of sight-line to the yard if you just glanced past it. But if you were actually looking, you could see the whole yard. Keep Reading