Some Downtime Amidst Some Chaos

I’m just coming off an 18-month work project and am now taking some much-needed R&R. I may or may not be blogging in the next couple of weeks… Probably mostly just enjoying the Summer and staying fairly unplugged. Ahhhhhhhhh.

FWIW, my head has been focusing more on global systems dynamics – an old interest in nonlinearity and chaos – now with a socio-economic-political angle, thanks in large part to John Robb’s excellent book, Brave New War. Likewise, as his work does, I’m thinking more about the local sustainability and survivability of my community with respect to rising global market/resource instabilities. While I don’t expect the situation to get any better, I do consider these times as hearkening a counterbalance to globalization, favoring regional stability over global chaos.