Ordinary Abundance

Read the full post at - Ordinary Abundance What a beautiful website & a beautiful reminder of the absolute abundance that many of us live with compared to our very recent ancestors – https://ordinaryabundance.com/ If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained. Edward Bellamy, 1888 — From Looking Backward, his utopian novel set in the year 2000. Before recordings, listening to music meant having instruments or performers nearby, and favorite songs could go unheard for years at a time. And I love that the site just keeps going on, and on, throughout every room in this imagined apartment. Water! Water! is the universal note which is sounded through every part of the city, and infuses joy and exultation into the masses. Philip Hone, 1842 — On the arrival of Croton water in New…