What I'm thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:
Performance Art: A group of us in Toronto are spreading the project started by artists Melisa Christensen
and Matt Lein in NYC last month. It involves putting their poster (Canadian
version above) in coffee shops and other sympathetic places, with an
envelope attached full of their beautifully-designed stickers
inside. We expect the stickers to show up in some surprising locations,
and perhaps get some media attention. If you'd like to take the project
to your city, let me know.
Learning How to Live a Natural Life: I'll
be writing more next week about Natural Enterprises and how, ideally,
they fit into a model of Intentional Communities which are further
networked into a Natural Economy. This has got me thinking about who I
would love to work with in Natural Enterprises and live with in
Intentional Community, and also about the nature of work and why so
much of it is soul-destroying. I've concluded that it's because of the
people working in them and how they've been socialized to behave in
modern society. There are some people I know, however, who are living
what I would call truly Natural Lives. They refuse to be negative, to
hate, to give up hoping and trying. They genuinely love everyone and
are always 'creating' love. I'm beginning to recall being that way,
when I was young, before I got angry, shy, bitter and depressed. I
recall wanting to be that way at various points in my life since then.
I think perhaps my next self-change will be in that direction. It will
not be easy for me, though. I'm so impatient, so quick, still, to judge.
Vignettes: Coming up soon, vignettes #4 and #5.
Blog-Hosted Conversations:
Plan is for 30-minute conversations,
once a week, on the subject of identifying and acquiring the essential
skills and relationships we need to be models of a better way to live,
and what those models might look like. Still working on practice
podcasts, readings of my own works just to try out the new
medium. Be patient with me.
Open Thread Question:
Who
do you know who's relentlessly positive, forgiving, understanding and
loving, despite the fact they know the crises we're facing in the
coming years? What's their secret? |
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