For some reading and listening on the current economic crisis, check out This American Life, A Giant Pool of Money and its follow-up, Another Frightening News about the Economy, which discusses the bailout. The Columbia Journalism Review, Boiler Room has a sobering story about the origins of the financial crisis and the blindness of the business press to the “crooked origins of the credit crisis.”

Of course, we build and play while Rome burns, which is an odd feeling. Is there really a crisis?

It is hard to tell here in Chagrin, with the exception of the fact that there is a larger than normal pool of homes for sale. Our addition has been moving ahead, without pause, belying the slow deconstruction of the economy. The foundation went up in just over a week, despite three-days straight of rain. I will post some images of the past week tomorrow, maybe. Meanwhile, the perfect antidote, though perhaps disconcerting image that reveals that ordinary life goes on despite such crises, here is a pix of Eli smiling before his soccer game this morning–a Saturday morning just like every other mundane autumn morning.