Sunday, May 29, 2011
College.
Wow. I'm starting to get what it feels like to be in college. Embracing how these four (sometimes 5, or more) years are so unique to the other ones in our lives. It is the time to embrace that unique place. All of the people and richness and diversity we otherwise may not experience, at least not with those people. G-d, it's just such an incredible time. I now get nostalgic when I hear those stereotypical college songs that bring me back to good times, but I still have two years left in this place. Before, I couldn't say I loved it, I couldn't call it beautiful, and now... UCSD, you are a beautiful place that houses incredible people. I love you.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Planning events
is something I am learning I really like to do and enjoy and it's so much funn!!! So stoked for Thursday.
So happy
to be alive. I feel privileged to even be able to say that. I am alive, and I am ALIVE. Wow, thank you G-d.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
I
don't mean to complain. But I wish people could just tell each other how they feel. I also wish people would appreciate each other more. Don't we understand that the people in our lives are precious treasures? hmm
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
right now in life...
such an incredibly enriching and developing period. also a preparation period for the next steps in life.
understanding.
empathy.
compassion.
action.
understanding.
empathy.
compassion.
action.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
food movement
At one eloquent and entrepreneurially-impeccably-credentialed end of the spectrum stands farmer Joel Salatin:
Don't let them confuse you. Organic farming is not an industry. It is a movement. It is part of a movement that began when the first indigenous peoples fought against the Conquistadors. It is fighting back against the modern Conquistadors, the multinational corporations, those who would patent and genetically modify life and destroy diversity.
Well, being stubborn, slogan-loving Americans, we could try to come up with names anyway: Foodie, locavore, vegan, localism, smallism, anti-GMOism, anti-Conquistadorism, anti-Twinkie-ism, raw milkism, school lunchism, ethical treatment of animalism, family farmism, urban farmism, farmers market vs. Walmartism, heirloom variety-ism, real foodism, slow foodism, indigenous culturism, nurture capitalism, biocharism, terroirism.
Or we can zoom out, and zoom down, and look for the broader and deeper process of which all this food related activism is a part. Here are some of the persectives of people who have been working for decades to transform the food system (or create new ones):
Think: Eliot Coleman's advice, "Feed the soil, not the plant."
Think: Gary Snyder's observation: "Food is the field in which we daily explore our harming of the world."
Think: Joan Gussow's aphorism, "I prefer butter to margarine, because I trust cows more than I trust chemists."
Think: Odessa Piper's insight, "Local is the distance the heart can travel."
This enterprise that we are a part of, with its new organic farmers and the host of small food enterprises that are emerging to bring their produce to market, is about an economy that does less harm. It's about rebuilding trust and reconnecting to one another and the places where we live. It's about healing the social and ecological relationships that have been broken by hundreds of years of linear, extractive pursuit of economic growth, industrialization, globalization, and consumerism. It's about pulling some of our money out of ever-accelerating financial markets and its myriad abstractions -- called, with more than a little irony, securities -- and putting it to work near where we live, in things that we understand, starting with food -- creating a more immediate and tangible kind of security.
This attention to and, even, celebration of the small, the slow and the local can seem, at times, rather precious against the scale of global economic, political, and environmental challenges. But it was agriculture that gave birth to the modern economy, and, as Paul Ehrlich recognizes, it must be agriculture that we fix if there is to be a postmodern economy:
The agricultural revolution led to a period of cultural evolution unprecedented in its rapidity and scale ... It is a story that starts with the obtaining of food but returns us to two aspects of human behavior that, although present in hunter-gatherers, became even more important in sedentary groups-religion and violence.
Can we imagine a pro-soil, pro-earthworm, pro-small farmer, anti-fiduciary-razzmatazz, pro non-capitalist-pig movement that becomes as robust in this second decade of the 21st century as the anti-war movement was in the 1960s?
Peace Now. Fertility Now. Food Here Now. Slow Money.
From: Will the real food movement please stand up?
http://www.grist.org/sustainable-food/2011-05-02-will-the-real-food-movement-please-stand-up
Don't let them confuse you. Organic farming is not an industry. It is a movement. It is part of a movement that began when the first indigenous peoples fought against the Conquistadors. It is fighting back against the modern Conquistadors, the multinational corporations, those who would patent and genetically modify life and destroy diversity.
Well, being stubborn, slogan-loving Americans, we could try to come up with names anyway: Foodie, locavore, vegan, localism, smallism, anti-GMOism, anti-Conquistadorism, anti-Twinkie-ism, raw milkism, school lunchism, ethical treatment of animalism, family farmism, urban farmism, farmers market vs. Walmartism, heirloom variety-ism, real foodism, slow foodism, indigenous culturism, nurture capitalism, biocharism, terroirism.
Or we can zoom out, and zoom down, and look for the broader and deeper process of which all this food related activism is a part. Here are some of the persectives of people who have been working for decades to transform the food system (or create new ones):
Think: Eliot Coleman's advice, "Feed the soil, not the plant."
Think: Gary Snyder's observation: "Food is the field in which we daily explore our harming of the world."
Think: Joan Gussow's aphorism, "I prefer butter to margarine, because I trust cows more than I trust chemists."
Think: Odessa Piper's insight, "Local is the distance the heart can travel."
This enterprise that we are a part of, with its new organic farmers and the host of small food enterprises that are emerging to bring their produce to market, is about an economy that does less harm. It's about rebuilding trust and reconnecting to one another and the places where we live. It's about healing the social and ecological relationships that have been broken by hundreds of years of linear, extractive pursuit of economic growth, industrialization, globalization, and consumerism. It's about pulling some of our money out of ever-accelerating financial markets and its myriad abstractions -- called, with more than a little irony, securities -- and putting it to work near where we live, in things that we understand, starting with food -- creating a more immediate and tangible kind of security.
This attention to and, even, celebration of the small, the slow and the local can seem, at times, rather precious against the scale of global economic, political, and environmental challenges. But it was agriculture that gave birth to the modern economy, and, as Paul Ehrlich recognizes, it must be agriculture that we fix if there is to be a postmodern economy:
The agricultural revolution led to a period of cultural evolution unprecedented in its rapidity and scale ... It is a story that starts with the obtaining of food but returns us to two aspects of human behavior that, although present in hunter-gatherers, became even more important in sedentary groups-religion and violence.
Can we imagine a pro-soil, pro-earthworm, pro-small farmer, anti-fiduciary-razzmatazz, pro non-capitalist-pig movement that becomes as robust in this second decade of the 21st century as the anti-war movement was in the 1960s?
Peace Now. Fertility Now. Food Here Now. Slow Money.
From: Will the real food movement please stand up?
http://www.grist.org/sustainable-food/2011-05-02-will-the-real-food-movement-please-stand-up
Monday, May 2, 2011
wabbit and fruit trees
Today was a nice day. I had a wild widdle wabbit run up and stop a foot away from me and bought three fruit trees. Life can be quite swell.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
WE ARE LIVING AT AN INSANE TIME IN HISTORY
Bin Laden March 10, 1957- Announced dead May 1, 2011 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42852646#42852646
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