Well, spending two days with Joanna and participating in the exercises she lead was wonderful. I loved being around all the people, getting to know some of them and generally doing more crying, hugging and looking at people in a deeply engaged and appreciative way. The permission to really connect with each other was, for [...]
Me: I was curious about where our conversation ended during our last talk. I mentioned that I was aware of a lot of talk of cyborgs, human machine hybrids, but no talk of bio-borgs hybrids of animals and plants for instance. I did a little reading via the web to refresh my recollection about what [...]
Me: When we left off our last conversation we had been talking about thinking long ideas and I mentioned I had been thinking of what humans would become if we succeeded in living with power and not destroying our planet at the same time. I think I am ready to talk more about this and [...]
I have been writing about
I hope writing
Survives
Reading too
I hope children
Find a place
To grow
Plants too
I hope water
Survives
For the living
Ebb and Flow
Through
Cell walls
I hope we
Stop
Eating time
Faster
Than it lives us
Thinking in terms of sustainability is better than not taking the impact of our actions on our environment seriously, but I think there is a subtle and important fault in looking at the relationship this way. Having grown up in an industrial capitalist economy, most of us unconsciously accept
Obama, Edwards, Clintion, and Change
Why is the change message resonating outside the orbit of motivated progressive political activists? I think people have an innate sense that everything is degrading under their feet and they have been lied to and abused by the elites who are represented by the Republican party and PR machine. All Republican marketing/propaganda tactics sound like [...]