Your ideas, observations, insights and discourse are always presented to the point of perfection. As someone who is many times "accused" of being a perfectionist I suppose I should know how truly amazing you are. I love your deep thinking and superlative writings. Keep it all coming ... please.
Now, about those socks. I am on the same sock journey as you. I have found the Brubaker Alpaka Natur sock brand on Amazon that produces 100% Alpaca wool socks. They have hiking sock thickness and texture and are very comfortable. And, they breathe. If you try them, let me know what you think.
Thanks for your comment. And for the Brubaker suggestion. I'm checking them out right now. See also my response to Max, who is also on the same search.
Yes, the joy of cotton socks is totally undermined by elastic at the top. Most of my old cotton socks are worn thin, if not hole-y. So Lorraine, let me know if you succeed in your search and I’ll order some for myself.
Meanwhile, the rest of your column is like a juggernaut, full of both old and brilliantly new insights on our downhill runaway dysfunctional plastic capitalistic economy. My only response these days is to donate as much as I can afford to those brave organizations dedicated to confronting and solving, as best they can, the gigantic problems caused for the rest of us (the majority) by a relative handful of barely human creatures intent on making themselves into trillionaires at the cost of the rest of us living on this earth. (End of rant.)
I could not agree more about the difficulty of getting cotton socks. Even worse, most socks now have elastic in them, as I discovered when ordering supposedly all cotton socks. It constricts and leaves marks, so I gave them away. I'll just add that my work in the Suppressed Histories Archives looks at that same Long Count Indigenous history (but centered on women) as Graber. Check out https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064415032446
I'm looking at Maggie's socks, which supposedly are 1% nylon and 1% lycra. I feel like I'm being asked, well, are you willing to dip just one finger in the petroleum, if the rest of the sock is organic (so is petroleum, for that matter, the whole field of organic chemistry is the study of petroleum products)?
I'm going to try a pair, I'll let you know how tight they feel.
Thanks for the link to your Suppressed Histories work, it's stunning. I bookmarked it as "news," which it is, for sure, even though also history.
Hi Lorraine,
Your ideas, observations, insights and discourse are always presented to the point of perfection. As someone who is many times "accused" of being a perfectionist I suppose I should know how truly amazing you are. I love your deep thinking and superlative writings. Keep it all coming ... please.
Now, about those socks. I am on the same sock journey as you. I have found the Brubaker Alpaka Natur sock brand on Amazon that produces 100% Alpaca wool socks. They have hiking sock thickness and texture and are very comfortable. And, they breathe. If you try them, let me know what you think.
Duane
Hi Duane,
Thanks for your comment. And for the Brubaker suggestion. I'm checking them out right now. See also my response to Max, who is also on the same search.
Lorraine
Yes, the joy of cotton socks is totally undermined by elastic at the top. Most of my old cotton socks are worn thin, if not hole-y. So Lorraine, let me know if you succeed in your search and I’ll order some for myself.
Meanwhile, the rest of your column is like a juggernaut, full of both old and brilliantly new insights on our downhill runaway dysfunctional plastic capitalistic economy. My only response these days is to donate as much as I can afford to those brave organizations dedicated to confronting and solving, as best they can, the gigantic problems caused for the rest of us (the majority) by a relative handful of barely human creatures intent on making themselves into trillionaires at the cost of the rest of us living on this earth. (End of rant.)
Keep on Substacking, Lorraine!
Hi Deborah,
So many of us on the search for righteous socks! Who knew!!
Lorraine
I could not agree more about the difficulty of getting cotton socks. Even worse, most socks now have elastic in them, as I discovered when ordering supposedly all cotton socks. It constricts and leaves marks, so I gave them away. I'll just add that my work in the Suppressed Histories Archives looks at that same Long Count Indigenous history (but centered on women) as Graber. Check out https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064415032446
Hi Max,
I'm looking at Maggie's socks, which supposedly are 1% nylon and 1% lycra. I feel like I'm being asked, well, are you willing to dip just one finger in the petroleum, if the rest of the sock is organic (so is petroleum, for that matter, the whole field of organic chemistry is the study of petroleum products)?
I'm going to try a pair, I'll let you know how tight they feel.
Thanks for the link to your Suppressed Histories work, it's stunning. I bookmarked it as "news," which it is, for sure, even though also history.
Lorraine
I could live with 1% nylon but not the lycra. Would prefer pure cotton, but am not prepared to pay $16/pair for designer socks!
Glad you like the site. You might also enjoy the free videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@maxdashu/videos I especially recommend the one on Ancient Saharan women.
Good to see our here Max, I've followed you work (& art) since mid-1990's 🙂