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Building Beauty on the Web
Enchanted Garden Installations are rising
up on the Web
Date: 6/4/2010 9:51:04 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1718 times
Time flies.
I cannot say the first year
that I got my first computer.
One of the first words I typed
in was God.
To do that gave me a good feeling.
I acknowledge I live a strange life.
It is abnormal. In these times,
someone needs to lead a strange life.
The norm is a bit sick. Sorry.
We are really off, and most people
who can read this know that.
I would like to imagine that
the things I am saying here,
at least the some of the stuff
in between the many words that
could be thrown out as chaff
rather than kernels, are worth saving.
I have made a lot of messes in my life.
I have a lot way to go before I can accept
the messes I make.
There are also moments in my life
when with the support of others i
create Enchanted Garden Installations.
Once a year now, at the Pacific Symposium
at the Catamaran, I create a full fledged
Enchanted Garden Installation.
I want to thank Andrew Gaeddert,
of Health Concerns, one of the the oldest
pioneering companies in the field of
Traditional Chinese Medicine, for over many
years appreciating, participating, and financially
supporting the Enchanted Garden Installation
that we now co-create at the Catamaran each
November.
There are also a host of other Sponsors
who make it possible for me to spend
most of my life writing on this Plant Your Dream Blog.
I will always keep this site,
as long as there is a place on the Internet
called Curezone.
I am also going to expand in the coming
Enchanted Garden Season to create more beauty
on the web.
Thanks to Anthony Russo, who has consistently
been a Beet Keeper Sponsor for near a year now,
I have had some free play to sponsor my activity
in the world. There are of course some others
as well who make this Plant Your Dream Blog
possible in on the web. I will name them
as I work through my record keeping for the
the season past.
In the next year, with the help of some really
spectacular next generation artists and co-creators,
I want to turn some of my images and ideas
over to youth.
I want to see what together we can co-cocreate
on the web to add more lovely things as virtual monuments
to life.
When all is said and done,
the decisions we make now,
1000 years from now, could allow
us to look back and see that we
were a generation that seeded
1000 years of peace.
Each Spring around the time known
as Passover, I have the honor of
listening and being heard by an encampment
of very special women and men who
come together in the desert of Joshua Tree
National Park in Twentynine Palms
to create a Village.
It is not that we fully understand each other
in our Village, but at least we sit in a circle
and each person has an opportunity to
co-invent.
This year I came to camp with a desperate sense.
I have been writing the last six months
about natural disaster. I am aware that most
of us are living our lives as a natural disaster
and an earthquake waiting to happen.
Clearly, by now, with the evidence in the Gulf,
it is clear to more and more people that
we have broken the Food Chain at sea.
From my point of view, we have broken
the Chain of Being and its Food Chain
on land and at sea.
What we have done to seeds on land
and sea is counter productive to life itself.
I am willing to discuss this.
I am willing in the season ahead to
enter more deeply a Dialogue on Science,
Ethics, and Food.
I would like all sides to speak up in
our Internet Village.
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity
to watch and record the 176th meeting
of the AAAS, the predigious American Association
for the Advancement of Science Meeting.
There were also number of other events
I was able to see through the Press Credentials
that being a Blogger now gives.
At that AAAS Conference, I clearly saw
the inside track that Biotechnology and Science
has in shaping the direction our government
is has been headed.
At that conference, some of the youth of San Diego
were outside protesting one of the speakers,
William Fraley, Father of Biotech Agriculture.
It was an honor to hear him speak and meet
Tammy Craig Shilling, his associate, who both
came to the conference to express the point
of view of the Monstanto Company, that Forbes
Magazine named the #1 company of the year.
There is a lot of tension right now between
the lovers of GMO and the lovers of Organic.
I approached William Farley and told him
I felt I could lessen the tension between
GMO Lovers and Organic Lovers.
I believe if we can enter into Dialogue together,
and truly hear each other, truly we can decide
as a nation and as a world would might be
good investments now if we want to make
the most of our time on earth.
I learned at the AAAS that there are already
forward thinking scientists and Visionaries
who are planning to colonize Mars. They have
given up on the future of the Earth.
From my point of view, I do not believe
we have even started to live here.
I personally do not believe we will have
the opportunity to live elsewhere until
we make learn how to live here.
We have not begun to master Nature's Original
Technology. I accept my bias, and clearly have one.
I believe it is time to say "Not!" to some
forms of Biotech--not all. I believe that
there are laws and rules understood by
a simple beet that we are here to learn first
before we will be allowed to go elsewhere
with our clutter.
That is all I have to say now.
I am grateful Summer is near approaching,
a time of comfort and wearing less clothes,
a time to slow down here in the Enchanted Garden
to weed, to plan, and prepare to release
awesome beauty on the web.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
June 4, 2010
writing the Day before
U.N. World Environment Day
7:15 am
June 4, 2010
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