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MENDO ISLAND→
...still small enough
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.” ~ Raymond Williams
Small is beautiful, when small is skilled and dedicated... There is so much artificial and plastic crap around, the human spirit yearns for the homespun and the real. ~Gene Logsdon→
I've observed that people tend to live at one of two extremes in the spectrum of life: those who live on the edge, and those who avoid the edge. Those who live on the edge are hanging out in the most dangerous and unstable places — yet they're also often the most powerful agents of change, because the edge is where change is happening; away from the edge, things are naturally unchanging. ~Thom Hartmann
What is not worth doing, is not worth doing well. ~Abraham Maslow→
Society is like a stew: If you don't stir it up every now and then, the scum rises to the top.~Edward Abbey
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~Buckminster Fuller→
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.~Herman Melville
Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. ~Wendell Berry→ -
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This was useful in the past before the wolves were raging at the door. Now, in the wake of our profound sleep, anything small and weak, especially self help type things, are going to get savaged. Now is the time for only one response with any possibility of success, all out combined resistance. It would have been a lot easier at any time since WWII to start to clean out the psychopaths that terrible conflict brought to power in our country.
We did nothing of note to resist. We watched brave leaders cut down virtually without protest, settling for having streets and schools renamed as symbols of our shameless supine natures. It really is getting so rapidly ugly, ugly in the way it was for us who were caught up as civilians in the American War In Viet Nam, that I have a hard time believing that very many heretofore sheltered people will even be able to open their ears and eyes to the reality that is enveloping them. Ugly in the way your hair would stand up with a knock on your door in the middle of the night. Ugly, as in long thought friends come to betray each other out of fear.
But then I will be an optimist to the end I guess. I still believe that it is possible for a people find their courage and confront the evil that presses its boot on their necks.