Hope to see you on Sunday. I'm on Global Warming Task Force, Sierra Club board, and CHEO board - plus run Green Events calendar at meetup.com - and have been wishing more people would get involved. Like to find a way to have more access to media locally... Kat, looking forward to hearing about what you're doing also! T
My picture says it all. My gift is vision, but they all want cell phones and luxury cars, and all the other ridiculous toys of American Capitalist culture.
I am very frustrated. It is refreshing to "hear" from such a bright, fresh mind and heart such as yourself.
You mention that you are feeling jaded, already. I hate to say this, but you've probably got a LOT more of that coming your way.
Don't get depressed. Don't give up. That's easier said than done. If you do give up, or have to, because of circumstances, I'm sure that you will find equally, if not more so disappointment and frustration in your pursuits. That's life. So if you can keep on the right track, and you have the opportunity to pursue a correct calling with the best of intentions, stick with it!
Here's a prayer that I wrote:
The Lloyd's Prayer
Our father, this earth ain't no heaven
Hugh could be his name
Thy kin dom come
We will work on it
to try to make it better (Kevin?)
Work this day on our daily bread
and think about the future, look ahead
Forgive, but don't forget
and be good to each other.
Keep trying, don't internalize the insanity
and try not to be overwhelmed
with the disappointment.
Amen.
Hello Kat! I'm Angela. I am a 35 year old Registered Nurse at a Physical Rehab. Hospital. I have been with Ron for 8 years and my son Jonathan is 15 years old. I really want to be more involved in environmental issues and natural living. Unfortunately, I resist using computers and checking my email messages, etc. rarely occurs (usually only once a month so it is a very unreliable way for me to keep in contact with others). I try to reuse and recycle all that we can and have become a bit of a pat-rack hating to throw anything away....
First of all, I had two great mentors, Dr. Norton H(e)art Nickerson and Dr. Hugh Cussbear William Mott Morris Davis.
I have had many good and great teachers, including the "youth culture" of the 60's and early 70's.
I have been fortunate to have been given and taken the time to pursue my true calling. For many years of my life, I was unable to do this because of economic circumstances.
The Buddhists call it right livelihood. Few have the opportunity to pursue it and many eschew it even as a goal. The Society of Friends ethic, and I've lost my notes as to whom to exactly attribute this to, holds that a person's life is an exercise in ascetic value, a proof that his/her state of grace through his/her conscientiousness which is expressed in the care and method with which he/she pursues his/her calling.
George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, set out to "conquer the world with love". He was beaten to death in an English prison, not by fellow prisoners but by the King's "men". Some historians estimate more than 15,000 imprisonments of Friends in England and America, resulting in more than 450 deaths in the first forty years of the movement.
The history of working peoples’ struggles is very similar. From the early cooperative communitarians of the 1600's to the socialists of the 1700's through to the Labor movements and those of the socialist and communist movements throughout modern history has been one of Feudal/Mercantile/Capitalist oppression and aggression with the religious, militaristic, and financial propaganda arms saying it was the freedom fighters that were the "terrorists", when actually the State Supported terrorism dates back at least 350 to 400 years, actually many more.
Shock and awe. If that ain't State Supported Terrorism, then I'm gullible.
It is very hard to advise. You are young and full of life. Life is very hard and the history of what we are pursuing is fraught with repression. I have experienced this first and second hand. If you want to discuss my life further, we can, but it isn't all that necessary. Suffice to say, what I have said.
Understand that farmers and farmworkers (it used to be extended families and communities) have throughout history been the most exploited peoples of the planet. Serfdom is not much different, if at all, from slavery.
The history of the relationship between banking interests and farmer/farmworkers has always been one of brutal exploitation and oppression. For example, read about Shay's Rebellion. With the onset of Corporate Control of agriculture, the situation got worse.
Bankers and Capitalists always keep enough of the military, the yeomanry, the clergy, to keep the artisans either satisfied and/or terrified, the latter true for the peasantry. They use all their power, their charlatanry, their propaganda, their mythology, and whatever other insidious measures, and they stop at nothing to keep allegiances and obeisance.
Don't believe the Reagan/Clinton/Obama/Yuppie/Banker/Capitalist line about the "great American middle class". It is an appeal to gluttony. It is an appeal to some sort of God-given right to blind fully oppress fellow citizens of our nation and more importantly the whole planet.
I'm not sure I've answered your questions. We have so much work to do, and I also feel often helpless with regards to the history of what we are trying to do.
Be strong. Be intelligent. Be friendly. Be knowledgeable. Be vigilant. Be careful. I mean the last in two ways. You are obviously a careful young woman. That is, you obviously care about others and equity, and quality of life, and humanity, and sustainability, and peace. BUT, be cautious, because the powers that be have made a history of calling us "Outopian" (which means no place) and laughing at the hip peace movement and embracing the greed-soaked Yuppies. I prefer eutopian, which means good place, and will continue to work for it, despite the large odds that we face, in a world that doesn't care, a nation that worships greed, complicated by rich Liberals that just don't know and/or obfuscate with a smiling, ostensibly caring, face.
Hey Kat! Yep, NZ seems to be the perfect little country to try TT as a national/local initiative. Being islands helps of course. And good to see the Urban Pioneers in San Diego on your video links. They are my idols.
Hi. Just checking in. Yeah. You have 9 Chattanoogans here! That is amazing. There will be more when we officially accounce it at the US site. A group of nine could make a huge study of Chattanooga and collect and network some key groups and organizations.
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My picture says it all. My gift is vision, but they all want cell phones and luxury cars, and all the other ridiculous toys of American Capitalist culture.
I am very frustrated. It is refreshing to "hear" from such a bright, fresh mind and heart such as yourself.
You mention that you are feeling jaded, already. I hate to say this, but you've probably got a LOT more of that coming your way.
Don't get depressed. Don't give up. That's easier said than done. If you do give up, or have to, because of circumstances, I'm sure that you will find equally, if not more so disappointment and frustration in your pursuits. That's life. So if you can keep on the right track, and you have the opportunity to pursue a correct calling with the best of intentions, stick with it!
Here's a prayer that I wrote:
The Lloyd's Prayer
Our father, this earth ain't no heaven
Hugh could be his name
Thy kin dom come
We will work on it
to try to make it better (Kevin?)
Work this day on our daily bread
and think about the future, look ahead
Forgive, but don't forget
and be good to each other.
Keep trying, don't internalize the insanity
and try not to be overwhelmed
with the disappointment.
Amen.
Mike
I am very fortunate in many ways.
First of all, I had two great mentors, Dr. Norton H(e)art Nickerson and Dr. Hugh Cussbear William Mott Morris Davis.
I have had many good and great teachers, including the "youth culture" of the 60's and early 70's.
I have been fortunate to have been given and taken the time to pursue my true calling. For many years of my life, I was unable to do this because of economic circumstances.
The Buddhists call it right livelihood. Few have the opportunity to pursue it and many eschew it even as a goal. The Society of Friends ethic, and I've lost my notes as to whom to exactly attribute this to, holds that a person's life is an exercise in ascetic value, a proof that his/her state of grace through his/her conscientiousness which is expressed in the care and method with which he/she pursues his/her calling.
George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, set out to "conquer the world with love". He was beaten to death in an English prison, not by fellow prisoners but by the King's "men". Some historians estimate more than 15,000 imprisonments of Friends in England and America, resulting in more than 450 deaths in the first forty years of the movement.
The history of working peoples’ struggles is very similar. From the early cooperative communitarians of the 1600's to the socialists of the 1700's through to the Labor movements and those of the socialist and communist movements throughout modern history has been one of Feudal/Mercantile/Capitalist oppression and aggression with the religious, militaristic, and financial propaganda arms saying it was the freedom fighters that were the "terrorists", when actually the State Supported terrorism dates back at least 350 to 400 years, actually many more.
Shock and awe. If that ain't State Supported Terrorism, then I'm gullible.
It is very hard to advise. You are young and full of life. Life is very hard and the history of what we are pursuing is fraught with repression. I have experienced this first and second hand. If you want to discuss my life further, we can, but it isn't all that necessary. Suffice to say, what I have said.
Understand that farmers and farmworkers (it used to be extended families and communities) have throughout history been the most exploited peoples of the planet. Serfdom is not much different, if at all, from slavery.
The history of the relationship between banking interests and farmer/farmworkers has always been one of brutal exploitation and oppression. For example, read about Shay's Rebellion. With the onset of Corporate Control of agriculture, the situation got worse.
Bankers and Capitalists always keep enough of the military, the yeomanry, the clergy, to keep the artisans either satisfied and/or terrified, the latter true for the peasantry. They use all their power, their charlatanry, their propaganda, their mythology, and whatever other insidious measures, and they stop at nothing to keep allegiances and obeisance.
Don't believe the Reagan/Clinton/Obama/Yuppie/Banker/Capitalist line about the "great American middle class". It is an appeal to gluttony. It is an appeal to some sort of God-given right to blind fully oppress fellow citizens of our nation and more importantly the whole planet.
I'm not sure I've answered your questions. We have so much work to do, and I also feel often helpless with regards to the history of what we are trying to do.
Be strong. Be intelligent. Be friendly. Be knowledgeable. Be vigilant. Be careful. I mean the last in two ways. You are obviously a careful young woman. That is, you obviously care about others and equity, and quality of life, and humanity, and sustainability, and peace. BUT, be cautious, because the powers that be have made a history of calling us "Outopian" (which means no place) and laughing at the hip peace movement and embracing the greed-soaked Yuppies. I prefer eutopian, which means good place, and will continue to work for it, despite the large odds that we face, in a world that doesn't care, a nation that worships greed, complicated by rich Liberals that just don't know and/or obfuscate with a smiling, ostensibly caring, face.
With much love and care,
Mike Morin
http://groups.myspace.com/masterkudzugardeners
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