MindBird.com
Title
Mindbird Maps & Books: Exploring the World Around & Within
Description
Although we often use the words "we" and "us" in this website, Mindbird Maps & Books is not a business run by two or more people. Nor is it run by one person with multiple personalities. The "we" refers to one guy trying to make an ethical living, with financial and moral support by a number of friends without whom this business would not exist. The "we" also recognizes that the shop itself has a personality of its own. Like a child, it resembles the parent, but has its own unique qualities.
The owner, manager, webmaster, bookshelf builder, cashier, shipper, receiver and floor sweeper is Lee Dittmann. His work experience was mostly in parks, bookstores, and hostels. His formal education was strong in science, math, drafting, history, writing, and foreign languages (German, Spanish, Russian, and French---though he is not fluent in any of them). His informal education has been in Buddhism, botany, natural history in general, literature, photography, botanical illustration, cartography, bicycling, camping, and long-distance hiking. It is no coincidence that this list reflects much of the subject matter of this website.
What may most interest the reader is that Lee followed a car-free way of life in this car-dependent culture. This was economic, social, political, physical fitness, safety, and conservation reasons. All of these reasons are aspects of a more central practice of minimizing the suffering inflicted on other beings, whether human or non-human, from the effects of overuse of motors and dangerous wheeled heavy hunks of metal. He walks to work (once bicycled most places when he still had a working bike), and if you place an order from this website, he will carry your package by hand and foot to the neighborhood post office.
Contact
- Mindbird Maps & Books
- 601 Hall Street Suite C
- Kingman AZ
- US 86401:
- 14
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