You Should Read This Article

http://professorlonniegamble.com/uploads/Main/EfficientBeautifulLovins.pdf   I think I’m suppose to get into detail about my impressions of this reading – but all it really did was make me slam my fist on the desk and shout “YES! OF COURSE!” Then I get frustrated that things haven’t advanced as far as they should have. Then I re-commit myself to this direction in life. Then I get tired and head to bed.

Permaculture Talent Show Poem

 [We apparently have to have a talent show for our Permaculture class. Being rather talentless, I was somewhat inspired to write a poem (in a poor imitation of Blake). I don't write poems often (or at all), and again, this is obviously the first draft of a rough idea... but here ya go!] Machinated man-made wretched wasteland wrestled my weary mind and turned my awkward feet towards freedom’s golden lands heavy, old, unfortunate man-made-man I came to find no freedom’s land left to find, only dunes of golden sands Distraught and downtrodden I sat my ass upon a rock and asked the bright burning solar light above, ‘Where may man find relief for his flock and enter in God’s sheltering love?’ Sun came down, hard and heated and spoke not,...

Inner Nature, Outer Nature

I wonder why the word “nature” is used to describe such radically different things. One definition includes all the trees, rocks, grass, water, animals, sands… those places and things which are least touched by mankind. But another definition is used to describe the inner behavior of our own selves – our inner nature, what we are compelled to do, those things structured into our own nature. I would like to reverse these definitions, just to see what happens. What happens when we talk about the nature (behavior) of nature – how the trees behave, what the grass is compelled to do, how the streams react to the rain on an emotional level. What is the attitude of the forest? What bias does the prairie hold? Does the soil desire something, or is it...

Final Paper for Deep Ecology

Final Paper for Deep Ecology, Part 1: Personal Myth Ron Khare This is who I was: When the imagination of the Great Unmanifest stirred and brought forth the potential for all of Creation, I came into existence. I am, or was, the expression of pure geometry, crossing lines inside a perfect circle. For a moment I simply existed, one design out of the nearly infinite possible designs. Then the Creator breathed life into the world, and I began to vibrate – I became alive. This design is called, among other things, the “sun cross.” Like the sun, it has a radiant center that spreads energy outwards, intense and unrelenting. From a distance, or when it is small, it gives and nourishes life. Embedded in every design was motion; underlining each of my brother and...

Ten Years Wandering in a Cocoon.

Reading: Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin, chapters 1, 3 and 7 “A man walks down the street   It’s a street in a strange world   Maybe it’s the Third World   Maybe it’s his first time around   He doesn’t speak the language  He holds no currency   He is a foreign man   He is surrounded by the sound  The sound  Cattle in the marketplace   Scatterlings and orphanages   He looks around, around    He sees angels in the architecture   Spinning in infinity    He says Amen and Hallelujah!” – You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon Despite the size of the reading, and the author’s tendency to say more when less would do, I thoroughly enjoyed and identified with this reading, and am purchasing the...

Blog Dump – cut’n'pasted from the MUM site.

Deep Ecology 24: I like the term Ecosophy, even if I can’t figure out how to pronounce it properly, if for the only reason that its explanation is on its own terms. Ecology can remain to be the limited science that fits within the framework of the much larger (and more important, in my view) study of Ecosophy. One can argue, however, that by taking a holistic view of ecology, including a total-field image between related things, that Ecosophy is too large an area to effectively study – it would be like saying you study the “science of everything, ever.” Indeed, going so far beyond ecology as to incorporate political science, behaviorism, culture and traditions within nearly every society and so on, ecosophy becomes too large a...