100%!! "I’ve also been thinking about how to coalesce a new political movement that can really move forward an agenda for justice and for nature. How to build in our own communities and link across the landscape."
I write s/Self the way I have done since 2005 because there is the small s of my irish-bodied 75 year old personal self and I arise from, live within and am protective of, self. Self, big Self, is the ever expanding context of community, culture, local ecosystem, biosphere, Earth and cosmos that I shape. I shape that as it is shaping me. How I respond, makes a difference.
Pause for Peace is an action that is emergent from the Deep Transformation Network and its associated networks, most people participating also have their own local rooting and expression, saving water, planting community gardens for food, health and safety.
Two minutes stopping, silent, just staying there physically still ..,while holding a handmade sign with Pause for Peace sign. It is suggested to do it in a community or public place but home alone your s/Self ..with your kids, with your extended family.. with a group of new friends, in your church community, in your recovery group and activist community who also share an appreciation for blues music, locally distilled gins and community celebration timed with indigenous seasonal calendars. There's been a turning. We know we are headed into some challenging times. Friends and communities who can work together deeply enough, are often in tension, in what ecologon Berry used to call "creative disequilibrium". How we move through that is what matters... what can support an outcome favourable to sustaining the flow of life?
And not just OUR version of what is favourable, sustainable, aotopoetic but what truly is our best option..
collaboratively evolved.. not organised by someone convinced that this is his to organize, lead, to be truly response able for rather than to....like your locally grown communities.
Jeez, I really love this (short & "sweet") piece. Well-put. Thank you.
100%!! "I’ve also been thinking about how to coalesce a new political movement that can really move forward an agenda for justice and for nature. How to build in our own communities and link across the landscape."
I would love to sit down with you over coffee to talk about this.
I write s/Self the way I have done since 2005 because there is the small s of my irish-bodied 75 year old personal self and I arise from, live within and am protective of, self. Self, big Self, is the ever expanding context of community, culture, local ecosystem, biosphere, Earth and cosmos that I shape. I shape that as it is shaping me. How I respond, makes a difference.
Pause for Peace is an action that is emergent from the Deep Transformation Network and its associated networks, most people participating also have their own local rooting and expression, saving water, planting community gardens for food, health and safety.
Two minutes stopping, silent, just staying there physically still ..,while holding a handmade sign with Pause for Peace sign. It is suggested to do it in a community or public place but home alone your s/Self ..with your kids, with your extended family.. with a group of new friends, in your church community, in your recovery group and activist community who also share an appreciation for blues music, locally distilled gins and community celebration timed with indigenous seasonal calendars. There's been a turning. We know we are headed into some challenging times. Friends and communities who can work together deeply enough, are often in tension, in what ecologon Berry used to call "creative disequilibrium". How we move through that is what matters... what can support an outcome favourable to sustaining the flow of life?
And not just OUR version of what is favourable, sustainable, aotopoetic but what truly is our best option..
collaboratively evolved.. not organised by someone convinced that this is his to organize, lead, to be truly response able for rather than to....like your locally grown communities.
Let's be couraged!