If You Can't Find a Way to Dance Together,
We May Be Missing The Point
One of my all time movie scenes
is from "Zorba The Greek."
The best laid plans of Mice and Men
fall apart. The character played by Alan Bates
has wanted to install some new technology
to help the Greeks find a way out of their problem.
He enlists the support of the whole world of the town
so to speak. They create this elaborate way of new things.
Finally, the Judgement Day comes. They try out the system.
The results are less than what had been hoped for.
There is a total collapse. Allan Bates is discouraged.
Zorba The Greek is disheartened.
Then the character played by Alan Bates has a
Moment of Awakening. He asks Zorba to teach him to
Dance.
At the upcoming 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference,
there will be some wonderful moments to dance,
each day between 4 pm-5 pm.
There will also be performance, and perhaps,
if I have my way, a bit of beet planting and tree planting
if that is not deemed to out of tune with the educational
aspects of the conference. (That's a dig...
and inside story...but the truth is...I could plant a community
beet in two minutes, and water a tree in less than two minutes.
So here we are, 2010. Food injustice abounds throughout
our world. We do not even though in Washington what
Food Safety really is. The root of authentic food safety
is the small farmer on the ground, the local Joe the Farmer
everywhere who you will meet at the farmstand, the Farmers' Market,
and the neighbor who is still finding a way to garden
in soil. Sorry, all other systems are a compromise,
but that too is another story.
So here we are in 2010. We are have lost control of our
food supply. We do not even know that seeds are sacred,
that there is something, from my point of view, totally
divine, in those little itsy-binsy bits of life that can grow dreams,
and more life. I am definitely Pro-Life when it comes
to seeds. Interfering with the pattern inherent in any of them,
is a loss for all of us.
Food Injustice. Ouch! Yesterday I visited the
New Roots Community Garden in City Heights.
So did Michelle Obama. I am not sure we both saw
the same things. She inspired a lot of kids, and hugged
one Somali woman. I came in after she left.
I saw some farmers who did not even speak English
who came here from distant farm land. They were
lucky to escape with their lives amidst flying bullets.
Others may have seen their ancient technolgies
superceded by modern technologies, that now
left them their lives barren.
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