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Living Outside The Concrete Jungle: Room for Rent
Living outside the concrete Jungle:
Would you like to live in nature
in the city?
Most of us living in San Diego
live as if we were living in a cement jungle.
Most of us who live here now
at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community,
a 1/3 acre of nature within walking distance of
San Diego State University, live on this
land as if we also were living in a cement jungle.
We show some appreciation for a tiny bit
of the land, but have no idea what is being
asked to live in community with the earth here.
This is the time, to remember
here and everywhere how to keep the beat with nature.
The intention, the priorty here, is asked to shift.
Date: 5/3/2010 4:34:52 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1194 times
Innocence of the Child--Our Peppermint Scented Geraniums
were in full bloom, May 2, the day that Violet came here with
parents Kenneth Korn and her mother alma.
Kenneth helped prune our apple tree skyward and begin
a summer transition to new heightened community formation.
Eight Year old Violet Light Korn looks into
the window of the Dome on the land
of the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community
four blocks from San Diego State University.
She visited the garden with parents
Kenneth and Alma for our Come Root Your Dream
Gathering, May 2. The plan is to have the
Dome be a shared creative space where
others who live in the house can have
getaway time, among its other uses.
Our next gathering will be
4-7 PM, Sunday May 30, 2010
RSVP on this Event Facebook Page
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2:12 PM
May 3, 2010
Most of us live as if were lived in a concrete jungle
sans plants.
Plants, more and more,
are an add on,
something foreign, something we sort of eat.
Less and less we have a direct relationship with plants
and the central place they play
in bringing peace to our lives.
Most young people--and growing populations
of adults have a relationship devoid of understanding
where our food comes from or how it grows.
This basic knowledge has become foreign to us.
I read a story recently.
A teacher held up some vegetables
right from the ground, whole, pure, natural
fresh. Many of the children in the classroom
could not name what they were seeing.
They were a bit familiar with the a pea in a can,
but had never seen in pea in the pod.
Life is little different here in at the Enchanted Garden
Intentional Community.
I would say most of us here could recognize a whole pea
if we saw one, but numbers of us who live here have
never walked the entire property or would imagine planting
a pea in a pod. I imagine I better get out there again
planting one myself. RIght now, the extent of my planting
are beets in pots, and a few other things.
Our property has has become too scary
just as the earth is too scary.
Most of us here might as well live in a house
with no frontyard or backyard.
I imagine some here imagine that rents are cheap,
but in fact there is a high cost when we each decide
to live in community. Living in community takes time
from my computer oriented existence. There
are requirements for living with each other under one roof on this
earth, but this is not part of the curriculum
at our nearby SDSU, a population as
big as a large Village, around 35,000.
Extrapolate further, what would it take to live
not only in harmony with each other, but in harmony
with the earth where we lived?
This is the essence of why this land
exists. This is the intention that this land
asks for each of us living who will
recommit to live here beginning now.
Now is the time, for shifts on our earth.
Truly, we are in a moment of The Great Earth Clean Up.
That cleanup will happen if possible
in the Gulf now, and it will happen
here on this property as a group,
in alignment, and out of desire
to love our earth, reaffirms why we
are sleeping here breathing in and
out together the same fragrances
of oxygen, the same rare micro-climate
of clean air.
I had a revelations about the
new day that is now coming here
for this community.
I went into the backyard yesterday
for our monthly Come Root Your Dream Gathering.
The primarily guests were the Korn famly, Kenneth,
wife Alma, and eight-year old daughter Violet Light Korn.
I have been working very hard lately
on many crisis in the world. It was so
endearing to be able to give attention
to a very sweet special child being given
a very rare start in life by two loving parents.
Kenneth, an old friend, has not been on this land
since the beginning of the millenium. It was good
to see the property through his eyes.
Our land is wildly overgrown.
It is massively overgrown.
The plants are having their way with the humans.
I have been hiring out a bit of gardening of late,
but this is a pittance to what it would take to
have "dominion," or at least have some say
with the plant life.
I left the cubicle of my own
computer existence--where I am possessed
to have impact on the Food Crisis in the world,
to take in a note on our community board.
There was an agenda item for our upcoming
house meeting.
Agenda Item: Lets increase the hours we
hire in for an outside housekeeper to come in and clean for us.
I felt a range of emotions from panic to anger.
Could we afford this additional expense?
To even answer this request was going to take me
off my computer and ask me to pay attention to
other communications, such as this one.
Then the thought hit me: Cement Jungle.
Then, I became to appreciate how this
wonderful woman, who also overworks
and is deeply involved in PhD work
of great service, seldom enters our
backyard. She might as well be living
in a place where the plants ask less
of us.
The only difference between living here and elsewhere
is that here at least we can see the mess we are living in.
Most of us are not even on the map
for what it will take to live on the earth
in the years to come.
And so I ask:
How many hours would it take if each of us were in some
way responsible for a relationship to the plants that want
to grow around us?
More and more we outsource the food we eat to others.
More and more we have put people in charge of our food supply
who have at best little understanding of what it really takes
to grow food fit for human consumption.
There is a prevalent idea now--bred from the very disconnection
and the prevalence of the cement jungle, that we can
codify food, make a commodity out of food, centralize it,
fragment it, sell seeds as if the genes in the future of our food
were real estate,
as if true human health had
nothing to do with a need for Real Food.
We have totally greenwashed the idea of health itself.
To my mind, and this is an Enchanted Garden Intention--
health means keeping the beat with nature.
And so, I want to know, is there anyone here
where I live now, or anyone reading these words,
who would like to live as well with this guideline
for living together?
Here, above all places, something new asks to be born.
It is the reason this land is here.
It is what makes living worth
putting in the work and joy that
it takes to live together.
On this land, we are here
to take steps to learn again now
to play Earthball.
Right now the plants our on top.
It is plant overgrowth. Plants 10,
Humans 1 in the game of Earthball.
Earthball, yes Plant Parenthood,
needs to be a growing concern here.
A time of priority shifting is
being asked by all of us now
both for those who want
to again learn to thrive on the earth,
as well as live together here.
Are you willing to play the game?
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