Amartya Sen talks about local ownership in India-- comparing outside v  
inside control. It's not a simple dichotomy; it's more about the  
internal checks and balances of a complex system which has a sort of  
self-informing intelligence. Also his outlook goes wider and deeper,  
certainly more than IMF-thinking. Sen is brilliant and kind.

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Mary Tegel
hands on impresario
Tegel Design + Planning
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On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

>> Putnam's work is on topic but, in my opinion, a bit fluffy. That's  
>> where my dept. was stuck then.
> please give us the unfluffy
>
> mostly what you have here is a naive instinct to hold together and a  
> whole lot of folks w/ solidness
>
It's not naive. I think it's more like dull-cost accounting where More  
is taken under consideration including the unquantifiable.
> we rarely wait to be received, we look to build that world we dare  
> to imagine, unhooked, unhinged
>
>>
This is hybrid vigor!!

>> Some towns simply don't have true third places. I live in one that  
>> has anemic versions only. That's one reason I like BP.
> I just finished reading John Nichols, The Milagro Beanfield War,  
> hits on
Great story. Try also Tortilla Flat-- somewhat sappy but a good story.
> some of this sense of power, community and 3rd places, the version I  
> read he adds an afterword in ...


>
The vegetable stand/ Colorado encounter and follow-up, and the family  
history, and your prospective lighthouse gig is a perfect example of  
what I mentioned about my understanding of Sen's outlook. People and  
place and the people (notably reliable and imaginative you) making the  
connections. That this is possible and that it happens can be forged  
by or destroyed by hardship. We each and all depend on others and  
something beyond others to endure.

> ... stay tuned
> ][<
>
I will. And I need to write about this stuff... Soon.

SMP

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