Our guest arrived today! He's very low maintenance and doesn't require any of my attention, but will walk with me to the coop and bookstore. But he isn't delighted by libraries for some reason! I LOVE libraries, they are a perfect model for how things should be--a shared community resource available to all.

I have been thinking about the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". I started thinking about this seriously when reading an article in Peru about well-intentioned Americans and Europeans who would go down there and tell people what to do, doing more harm than good. Naïveté can be more harmful than malice, I think. The fact that one doesn't care enough to seriously investigate what they are doing is an indirect kind of malice, and one less likely to be recognized because the intention is supposedly good. Intention is important, but intention has to be followed by right action.