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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner

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In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

reorganized bedroom, 2008

Phoenicia Diner in the Catskill Mountains. 

Responsible reuse and care of your belongings is one thing, but for some of these groups, if they monitored food and exercise the way they monitored general consumption it would be an eating disorder.

This isn't a healthy relationship with possessions.

Any obsession can become disordered (I don't necessarily mean pathologically, but extreme to the point where it does you more harm than good or more harm than is safe/justifiable), and I think we forget that.

Depending on the industry, your individual shopping choices can have an impact, especially if it's part of a larger organised movement like a proper boycott (or even just an unorganised drop in sales as lots of people simply decide to stop buying so much). Your individual shopping choices can also have a big effect on your own budget; repairing old shoes is usually much cheaper than buying new ones. But if you're focusing on the optimal way to dispose of something (again, unless it's something dangerous that requires specific disposal methods or something that's part of an existing large-scale recycling network), you're focusing on something way too late in the game to be environmentally relevant. What matters is the impact on production and shipping; once it's produced, it is already landfill.

Sometimes those old torn sheets would make a nice rug, not because that would have any practical impact, but because you feel like making a rug and have a cool idea for a pattern. Sometimes mending that shirt is better than replacing it because you like the aesthetic of visible mending. Sometimes collecting coffee jars to store your pasta in doesn't have any effect on throwing out the packaging the pasta came in or save the jars in the long term, but you think it looks nicer in the pantry. It's not bad to do these things (indeed the skills you can develop and the general mindfulness towards waste might have positive effects on other things you do), it's just not a moral obligation for environmental reasons. And like anything, if you get anywhere near as obsessive over it as laundry basket person in the picture, that's probably not great for your own wellbeing.

By Ashleigh Brilliant, 1977

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"ma'am this is a map store" = "this is an even more relevant place for you to be than you know yet"