Cicero pens a great essay about his recent move across the country, the new energy considerations he’s facing in Massachusetts and the looming conflict with Iran.
A taste…
Each passing day has me more convinced that our lives are carefully constructed fantasies, scripted in the last 60 years or so. Our fantastic expectations on how to live well are built upon the assumption that energy will be abundant, and cheap. But we are fragile and exposed. Many people don’t know it. They see themselves as hard workers who paid their dues, and their John Deere was fairly earned. Perhaps so, in the context of our culture’s expectations. But should the basic relationship we have with energy be disrupted, much of this paradise around my house will be changed.