Notes on GDP, travelling and place.

For such an important measurement, not a single person I have ever met can explain how the GDP is calculated, and more importantly, why.

I don’t know Anne Enright, but I am mighty glad to have met her writing this morning via a link in Metafilter that pointed to this essay on, ostensibly, travelling in Venice.

The place I go to many mornings is a little cove with a rocky beach looking up the fjord in which I live. The tide rises and falls and some days there is a large rock exposed and other days it’s nearly submerged. The view across to the west wall of the inlet changes with the light and cloud. Sometimes I meditate there, sometimes I count birds. I often greet dogs who come to visit the beach with their humans. Pádraig Ó Tuama wants to know: What is your place?