A rare economic prediction (and probably wrong): inflation is not government-spending induced or opening-and-closing-of-the-economy induced, and hence transitory; but climate-change induced, and so not merely transitory.

In a larger sense, I’d argue that both the pandemic and climate change fall under the category of being consequences to our devastation of the environment — and that that devastation is increasing prices, finally — carbon tax or no — so there will be inflation.

(Maybe: in the absence of a carbon tax or cap, there must be inflation?) (Don’t know anything about economics of course — but I wonder– what is the relationship between inflation and so-called “exterior costs”? Exterior costs must be paid for somehow and one of those ways might be destruction of property and another of those ways might be inflation, which I guess is similar if not the same.)

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About Chance Sweepings –Based on notes taken over almost a decade and reminiscences spanning almost two on Columbia Pike; –About 30,000 words in length, representing a small fraction of raw notes taken; –Philosophically, interested in the mundane and ordinary; the question: What happens when nothing is happening? –Format non-traditional. More like a collage than a story, though threads of a narrative may be seen… The very opposite of a tell-all, the intention here has been to make a montage of the sort of things we’re all aware of already.

About Paul — Came to work at store in 2003 after a decade of bohemianism; — Started walking to work since 2005, three miles each way, during which time he estimates he’s walked about 28,000 miles on his commute alone, including around 5000 ascents of the famously steep “superman hill.” — Graduated without distinction, but with zeal, from a “Great Books School”, the reason for his occasionally lofty discussion; –Despite his work’s sometimes unpolished and even ramshackle appearance, he is not an absolute stranger to the writing art and was actually published in the Boston Review way back.

Yet another story from customer: story of the mustache clipper and tweezers held by a magnet beneath the rim of the lamp. (Dad would lay beneath the lamp with a beer and the mom would trim the dad’s whiskers.)

Customer with stressful IT job, two kids, wife a nurse practitioner, hour and half long commute during which he would listen to new age music to relieve stress.

Excitement by the community center: a dog had leapt out of the window of a moving car, was all I overheard about it.

Customer said that “blowing from the diaphragm” (which is what you were always told to do) was pure baloney. And to blow a note properly required essentially the same muscles as a cough — you needed to understand it as a sort of slow cough.

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Customer I hadn’t seen in a bit — hadn’t had a bagel in thirty days, he said– (had I given him a terrible bagel?) — end of Ramadan, he said. –oh, Good.