WorldChanging is reporting that Whole Earth Review has gone belly up. From where I sit, I can look at a complete collection lined up on my bookshelf — I have been a subscriber since issue #1 nearly three decades ago. My first reaction was to be devastated but, in truth, it has been a shadow of its inspiring self in recent issues and its role supplanted by other (mostly web-based) resources. Its last in a series of invaluable lessons to readers like me, perhaps, is challenging us to let go of it gracefully as it passes like all things do.

“Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.”