Progress | Further ahead, further apart

I've had some really wonderful exchanges with folks at Seventh Generation, Tom's of Maine, and Brooklyn Industries this weekend/this morning. It seems the project strikes a very human chord and people are willing to help me make connections. It will be great to make these associations.

It's truly been eye-opening, though, to see how the world is no longer organized in a way which this is easy -- and certainly not expected. Long gone is the possibility of going to the market and meeting the craftsmen who's labor created the goods (the city's few Farmer's Markets are the rare exception). It's now a matter of a company rep deciding whether my requests are "Press" related, or "Customer Service", and of course, even "local" goods are manufactured all over the continent. Most of my successes so far are coming from connections through friends or the neighborhoods I spend time in.