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| Miramar monarch |
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| Bromeliad ecosystem |
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| Beautiful banana |
In my current relationship with the world in which we live, I haven't quite disentangled the basic elements of my life: food, shelter, clothing - from the overarching socio-economic system that permeates and dominates every aspect of life here in the good ol' USA.
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| Garden lizard |
Try as I might to liberate my mind and body, and those of my family, to develop a healthy spirit of in- & inter- dependence, autonomy and self reliance...
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| Pineland cocoplum |
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| Tiny beauty |
The road to recovering and reclaiming our ancestral indigenous systems of economics, governance, health, education, housing and food distribution seems as difficult today as a journey to mars... and yet we know there are many among us who are choosing and treading that path.
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| Valentines 4 change |
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| "The Distribution of Food" |
What would it mean were we all to follow our dream?
In the free market economy
will we truly succeed
through
the
test
of
time
?
In this buying power system where everything is bought and sold
- from food to body image, hair to headgear, makeup to multivitamins -
We are losing our intrinsic systems of accountability, apprenticeship
and appreciation for the learning journey.
With everything in the world available at our fingertips,
the process and discipline of earning the right
to acquire knowledge, skill or materials is quickly becoming a lost art.
Earning to learn is a values based approach to traditional knowledge acquisition that has transcended millenia of wars, genocide and systematic targeting and elimination of knowledge keepers.
As we move toward solving the perennial question of how best to ensure inter-generational transfer of knowledge, we would do well to bear in mind that our process is at least as important as our outcomes. In fact, a little self-paced sweat equity may be just the infusion of sanity that our US public education system is lacking here in the 21st century.
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| Just another sunset |
