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Living Sustainably
I am not Living Sustainably.
The story of yesterday.
Date: 4/26/2009 11:20:34 AM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1326 times
I got up yesterday morning
after a restless Friday night.
Too many thoughts to process
in my head during the night.
It is not easy living with people,
especially when you aspire to live
in community. The Skill Set for living
with others takes time and slowing
down to understand each other.
We all have triggers--stuff ready
to explode, stuff wanting to come out
to be made more conscious though
being fully heart.
Oh now I see.
This takes time.
DR. BERNARD JENSEN
spoke of the striations in the finger nails.
Do you have pits or lines in your fingernails?
That comes from living faster than the chemical
elements have a chance to come in naturally
in a form that is equal to a pattern of wholeness
wanting to express.
My finger nails are very striated.
They have always been.
Now at 61, other organs are show signs of
living too fast.
I can hardly keep up with my experiences.
I am hardly digesting my experiences.
Persistent diarrhea I attribute to living too fast.
On a practical level, aside from the emotional
and psychological component here, I realize
that in recent days I have not even stopped
long enough to take in the supplements that work
for me.
I thought maybe yesterday, I would catch up with
some things, but there was a yummy conference
down the street at SDSU that jumped out at me.
It showed up on the Grapevine, a local resource
for events.
That fit.
One of my goals is the begin evolving a relationship
between SDSU and this community house.
Our future fulfillment has a lot to do with being
in community service. I want to share teachings
with the students of SDSU.
Words are powerful.
The Universe aligns behind what we say.
The word wants to become flesh.
I spoke my word that I wanted to learn SDSU--
where the bathrooms were, how the roads worked.
I wanted to understand the physical plant
so I can contribute to other kinds of plants
become more a part of that scene.
Yesterday the Universe aligned me with one
delightful professor who gave me some powerful
information. He knew that there was already
a plan for a Botanical Garden on campus, right
on the spot where I had been looking.
He also told me the name of another professor
who was involved with helping to designate a five
acre parcel where an organic garden was also on the books.
I might have called the day a success and come home,
but no, I went on to drive to see IAN MILLER at the
City Heights Farmers' Market. I said I would show up.
I want him to come to our gathering here later in the day.
He is one of the few people I had time to fully tell,
and do follow up.
" I was wonderful when you were going to show up?"
He told me. The market closes at 1 PM. I got there
about 1:20 PM.
It was a great but brief meeting.
Then I had a choice of to go home, but that choice
never even phases me.
I have never been to Cuyamaca College where they have
one of the most sophisticated horticulture programs in our
bioregion.
They were having a Spring Garden Fair, on this the culmination
of Earth Day Week activities in our city.
I thought I would go there. I wanted to check out how far away it was.
In the back of my mind, I am looking for other places to interact
and teach.
The City Heights FM is near Euclid St. That is where BILL TALL,
my great friend and Enchanted Garden Sponsor, has his City
Farmers Nursery.
So I left it open to go to Cuyamaca and went instead to nearby
City Farmers Nursery. DENNIS GILES, one of the Farmers at the
FM had given me some extra Avocadoes and some oranges.
I have set an idea in motion to go out to his farm, perhaps this
Tuesday. Their is a plan to cut down 800 Avo Trees for lack of
water. I wanted to take a further stand on San Diego protecting
its food source.
I took in some of the avos, an orange, and some sugar cane
I cut from our garden and laid it down on the counter.
Bill had a long line of customers. He gave me a lovely look
in my direction that said it all, then continued with his customers.
He was jammed.
I also had one of our fragrant Enchanted Garden Roses,
so I started to ask each person in line if they wanted a sniff.
Most did. It is the loveliest of fragrances.
I parked the EG Mobile behind another vehicle.
When that customer came in to ask about the old VW,
I went out to move it, but then, rather than come back in,
I figured it was time to go to Cuyamaca.
There was a table from VICTORY GARDENS SAN DIEGO
at the Cuyamaca Spring Garden Fair, but I never saw it.
Instead I walked into the Water Conservation Garden.
I spent time with an exhibit that showed how to put together
the zigsaw puzzle to construct a sprinkler system.
I really learned something.
I was not living sustainably at the Cuyamaca Water Conservation
garden.
By the time I started to walk out, after spending a little time with
the Rainbird folks, I realized I had separated myself from the program
that I left somewhere. I went back to find that program.
Then I left again.
Then I realized I had separated myself from my camera case.
I had left it somewhere in the exhibit.
I went back to find it.
Someone had turned it into Lost and Found.
On the way in, I ran into an very old ally,
RON HURTOV, a master seed man who for more than 50 years
had explored plants in the Rain Forest.
He walked with me to retrieve the camera case.
Then on the way out, I said, let's sit for a while and talk.
As we were sitting, a woman came by who was carrying
my Ecousable filter water bottle that had fallen out of my
cart.
Because we stopped to chat, I saw here walking by.
She had found my bottle on the ground.
I am grateful I stopped.
I would not liked to have been separated from that
rather expensive and coveted water bottle.
Then, Ron and I went over to the Nursery
at Cuyamaca. I have never seen it.
It was lovely. Ron told me he had a life threatening
condition. I wanted to take some photos of him
to have if he chooses to kick the bucket.
We interacted with a delightful teen,
who took our photo together.
We met the man DON in charge and I showed him
THE ULTIMATE GARDENER.
Then Ron went off to collect some seeds.
I was very hungry. I drove back toward City Farmers
to see how the road worked. Then I went to
Whole Foods Market to stuff my face with some
chicken.
The grease tore the bag. I ate the chicken like
an animal. I did not even sit. I just grabbed at it
in the EG Mobile.
By that time, I was so weary that my head started
to process the imcomplete upset I had with the
house mate. I started to compose a letter in my head.
When I came home, one of the first things I did
was summon my beyond vapors head to write that note--
my second note to him--and place it in his box.
I wanted to leave it open that he might participate
in the gathering we are having today at 4 PM.
Then, I returned a phone call and left a message
saying I was too busy too talk. Catch up Monday.
I feel asleep some thereafter and got up a couple times
during the night to empty my bowel.
This morning, I woke with a headache.
My head was ringing with insights about ill health.
I know I am not living sustainably.
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Beginning 7:30-9:30 PM
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These classes aim to give to the
new generation of eco-advaocates
the Wisdom Teachings of
DR BERNARD JENSEN.
Dr. Jensen, in his day 1908-2001 saw
more than 350,000 patients.
His wholistic philosophy of health
soil, and soul are vital today
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ANTHONY ZOLEZZI, Sustainability Expert, one of my Green Heroes. Anthony is author
of PESTICIDE FREE KIDS, and is a significant voice for a GREEN HOLLYWOOD.
Read my blog about Anthony here and be sure to read some of his
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ANTHONY ZOLEZZI SUSTAINABILITY EXPERT:
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ANTHONY ZOLEZZI is one of the main inspirations behind
GREENOPS, a new Recycling Redemption project
that launches on Earth Day. GrEENOPOLIS is the
Social Network site. I am sure there are going
to be companies using plastic blottles for years.
This is a great project to make sure that those
producing drinks and other products in plastic
begin responsible for a program that sees
the bottles they sell are returned to the store
that sells it.
ORGANIC STRAWBERRY CONVERSION:
ANTHONY ZOLEZZI, GREEN HERO
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MUDDY POTTING SOIL
COMES OUT DRINKABLE
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That is mud in my hand from the ECOUSABLE
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