The Progressive THINKERS: Post your thoughts here

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Post your thoughts here

Prior to our meeting on the 17th of February, you can post your thoughts here.

This will give us a head start in understanding your concerns.

2 comments:

Colin said...: Walter, thank you very much for organizing the meeting last night!

Is this the right place to post that you mentioned last night?

This is the guiding orientation I've come up with: "nourishing our shared space, caring for the commons".

If people ask me what is good or progressive, I refer to that.

My concern is to help everyone stay local and focus on the local--meaning their own neighborhoods. A broader regional focus is important too.

While others fight, and that may be necessary, I have no motivation to fight--I'll walk away if I can, or get run over if not.

If everyone walked away, from paying rent, from paying taxes, from paying insurance, from using cars, etc--

and into a world where they stay in their neighborhood, grow the plants they need for energy and shelter, collect rainwater, care for their gardens--, care for their local friends. . .

That is what I work for.

The traveling and global organizing others do is important too.

The guiding vision I work under is primarily that of permaculture combined with what I've learned from Thich Nhat Hanh. Here is a quote of TNH: "When we ride on a horse which is out of control, I think our deepest wish is to stop. How can we stop? We have to resist the speed, the losing of ourselves, and therefore we must organize a resistance. Spending two hours on a cup of tea during a tea meditation is an act of resistance, nonviolent resistance. We can do it because we have a Sanghakaya [community of practitioners]. We can do it together, we can resist a way of life that makes us lose ourselves."

I work for a day when people are more concerned than they are now with what occurs in their gardens and in their neighborhoods. Global focus and global care can grow from there.

Working on this comment--thinking partly to ask you to link to the SDTJDPH blog--inspired me to attempt to make a list of
Organizations in the San Diego / Tijuana region with visions that emphasize both collaboration and caring for the commons.

Peace,
Colin; February 18, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Walter Davis said...: Thank you Colin. If others in the world cared as much for the environment and peace as you do, it certainly would be a better place.; February 19, 2008 at 3:58 AM

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