Thanks Eric & all. Looking forward to getting some of that energy up to Seneca County before too long Tony Del Plato
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Eric Banford <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- "Democracy is a device that ensures we will be governed no better than we deserve." G. B. Shaw _______________________________________________ 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
