I came away from Wednesday's event really energized, it was just what this tired activist needed! As I walked around talking to people, I kept picturing something like "activist stew", where we are each ingredients with vast flavor profiles. As the stew is stirred, each ingredient mixes and matches with other ingredients, creating new and exciting flavors of possibility. We are each greater than the sum of the parts, making for a delicious evening! LOL! Thanks to all involved, it was a blessed event.
And speaking of stew..on the way home I heard my favorite deep ecologist Joanna Macy on the radio, and she eluded to stew as well. It was a rebroadcast of her talk at Bioneers last year, if you didn't hear it or want to re-listen, it is incredibly relevant to the struggles we each face. She talks about “The Gifts of Uncertainty” in this dark age, my favorite part from the talk is this: "Thirdly, talking about the gifts of uncertainty, is the courage to feel, what you feel in the present moment. As you become present to your world then you feel what are are carrying. Usually if you are being rushed and hurried out of your minds, you don't bother paying attention, you try to pave it over, block it out, shut it down, turn away, turn it off. But try as we might, it comes up again. The grief, the outrage. The raw fear. What in god's name are we doing to our world and to each other? And you now are not going to fall for the ploy of the industrial growth society to pathologize that pain. You hear me? Don't let people, therapists or well meaning friends try to explain it away in terms of your personal biography or that time of month. It is a measure of your evolution, a measure of your humanity, it is a measure of your nobility that you have a heart-mind big enough to see and empathize with the outrage that is being inflicted on our world and on all our relations." http://www.joannamacy.net/multimedia/81-video/212-bioneers-video.html To see and empathize with the outrage that is being inflicted on our world, that is what is all about my friends! In solidarity, Eric _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
