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I Am Memorizing This One
And will declaim it! ~ Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery …
Medicine Making in Transition
While participating in the Training for Transition I came to a profound realization. One of the most powerful exercises in Transition is the positive visioning. People sit in two circles, one inside the other, facing each other so everyone is paired up. The people on the outside are the elders of the future, who have …
The Karma of the Escalade
The other day picking up my daughter from school I was preceded by a Cadillac Escalade. For those not in the know, it is the largest SUV on the market. Its numberplate read: KHARMA I am trying not to judge. I’m not judging.  I have decided not to judge.  It’s hazardous, anyway, to judge behavior without …
Rant
Just a quick word, here. I read only the headlines in Google News. That’s the extent of exposure to the Main Stream Media (MSM) as I can stand. And still, I’ll have to quit doing just that. what’s coming out of Fukushima is radio-active poisoning, first of all, *not* falling stock market prices! And yet it’s …
Doing vs. Undergoing
I must admit that I am down-hearted. I have managed for a couple of days now to avoid the news. A quick check in the morning and the evening and quickly look away again. Nuclear has always been my bugbear. I was 15 in Belgium when Chernobyl happened and it impressed me tremendously. That was …
Convenience Will Kill Us
This upsets me. Actually, it disgusts me. DH was flying for work and they gave him this on the airplane. It’s a single-use toothbrush, made of plastic, wrapped in plastic, foil and cardboard. Convenience will kill us!
Imagining the Other – Reflections in Transition
A week or so after my “I need to do something!” moment I stumbled across Wendell Berry’s essay “American Imagination and the Civil Way”. It pretty much answered my question, “But What?” The answer was Transition, of course, or more generally speaking, going out there and talking to people. This one’s philosophical. I hope you …
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Why Transition: Taking the Pressure Off
A friend came by today to pick up straw bales for his garden (I also gave him the quince atchar he supplied the quinces for, and my infamous apple peel jelly). He asked me why I am trying Transition again. I couldn’t quite answer clearly. I’m not clear in my head about the many causes …
My Intrepid Five-Year-Old
Amie asked me the other day what would happen if no more electricity came out of the walls. The context was simple: she was upset that it took so long to recharge the batteries of her toy hamster. The fact that the possibility occurred to her shows, I believe, some of her Mama’s influence. And …