Am I Crazy?

Photo by Zach Fairbanks

Teetering on the edge...held together by nothing but water tension...ready to break or boil, evaporate or sublimate...

Sometimes I wonder if i am nuts...
hopelessly hopeful in this hopeless world.
So much hope, so little time...

My mind spins off on these crazy galloping romps through the noosphere collecting dreams of infinite possibility and flashing them across my eyes...
Its a constant state of being...sometimes it is quite distracting from noticing the amazing beauty of the reality in front of my eyes...

Ideas about creating a plan that weaves democracy, music, planting trees, and the internet into complex patterns of joy and manifestation...
Where Al Gore, Barak Obama, Robert Redford and other luminaries are empowering the positive flow of regenerative culture...

And the craziest part is--- it's not just some abstract fantasy...far from it...
it is only once removed from cold hard reality (and who ever said reality had to be cold and hard anyway?)

Why cant we get together and talk...form the most strategically beneficial shared enterprise possible, and then march on?
why not?
we can...

and this is what it would look like from beginning to end.

Tomorrow I would go about my business...help design an eco-dwelling in the hills of Alabama and perhaps cut some wisteria off the Unity building to save it from the jungle...
The next day I would be working on some projects around the Ecovillage and the day after same same...
but then something different...
an electric tingle to the air...
a phone call...
ok, sounds good lets do it...
Turns out the Swan Trust just got in touch with some folks...
the Nature Conservancy and others and creating a plan facilitated by (nemawashi?) to buy up land in the rolling foot hills of the Cumberland Highland Rim...
and not just to set aside...
no, to create regenerative livelihoods...ecovillages and tracts of land to be wild crafted back into wildom...
and little enclaves of digital natives, uploading regenerative content onto the world wide web using sustainable server systems powered off of biomass using carbon sequestering technology (IT IS ALREADY HERE FOLKS)

What if...what if people started paying attention?
What if we all got together one day and just sat and listened
and the next day we all sat and talked?
What if we crafted a mutual beneficial shared enterprise between humanity and Mother Earth...What if we JOINED THE TEAM?

what would happen?

Am I Crazy?

Or is it already happening?
That's Gaiapoiesis in motion.

But no...some tether yanks me back to this reality...
What was it?
Dreams of wandering off to California with an Achin' in my heart?
some pop culture materialistic consumer wet dream that pulses its incandescent message out over the hills and hollows of our collective consciousness.

Fuck That.

here I am...I am ready to go...lets pull this together and launch ourselves into the blazing bright future with our hearts, our eyes, and our minds wide open.

Human Nature? Or Natural Human?

Reading through the national geographic resource on ecoregions of the world [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html] I am reminded of the institutionalized separation of humans and nature and the (Faulty) assumption that human activity must lead to degradation.
It may seem like I am quibbling at semantics, but in order to create the cultural space for people to practice permaculture and reclaim our rights as citizens of the biotic communities of the planet (a la bioregionalism and NW Trackers manifesto) we must start embedding the meme of positive human influence, stewardship, and keystone relationship to the world into mainstream environmental media.
with a resource as interactive, well researched and well funded as the terrestrial ecoregions map of the world we could have the opportunity to truly foster a regenerative relationship with the planet. By adding more emphasis on indigenous land management methods, and sections on appropriate (permacultural) management techniques in each ecoregion, as well as a links to groups of people actively pursuing the three fold directive of earth regeneration (as outlined in Nemawashi) we could drastically accelerate the uptake of regenerative memes and re-calibrate our culture to be more in tune with the ecological realities and the positive and life affirming actions we can take to honor ourselves and the planet as one sentient being.)
So how can we synchronize the research and resources of the institutional environmental movement, with the verve, knowledge and affirmation of the positive and proactive role of humanity’s place on the world? Perhaps its as easy as sending an email...


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