Passivity abounds? This week we tackle environment, molasses, fermentation, yeast, justice and wrap the week up with some rather glorious poetry.
However lets start with a word from Errol:
“The pursuit of gold, pleasure and danger motivate most of my springs.”
From My Wicked Wicked Ways, by Errol Flynn 1959.

An enormous sense of Environmental Responsibility has come over us here at PC.  It is also to the fore at Endette Hall as the ever altruistic Ira Maine tells us – here.

Cecil Poole has recounted childhood adventures in a piece titled Molasses. This sweet post can be viewed here

Passive Complicity has an unashamed interest in food.  Good food, and lots of it.  We enjoy beer, cider, wine and spirits.  We like pickles of all descriptions.  We get excited whenever ferment is mentioned.  Thus it was with pleasure that over two days we brought you the foreword to a fascinating book by Sandor Katz, “The Art of Fermentation”. The foreward is written by the author of “Omnivore’s Dilemma”, Michael Pollan.  Read the piece here and here.

Staying with food and with fermentation, at least with live cultures in yeast, Friday saw Ira Maine at his best with “Cutting Corners”, a piece exquisitely illustrated by Sir Bertram.

We completed the two part series “Justica” in this weeks Musical Dispatch from the Front, a piece that demonstrates the great richness in indigenous culture and white society’s inability to engage with or appreciate it.

And our poem this week was “The Pilgrimage” by Quentin Cockburn, of which our Poetry Editor, Ira Maine, had this to say “I think Quentin’s poem penitential is first class. However I do think that he should have persisted in his pursuit of the penitent’s pudenda. Even from here I could tell she was going to crack…”

It is cheering to know that Quentin is still alive.
Cheers
Cecil Poole