Thanks Rob. Always worth reading and your poetry is the icing on top! I believe the poetry will help to expand the following as it is an effective way into people's hearts. I am not sure that I can use it to sell the concept of natural solutions to the politicians in my region, but that doesn't mean it does not have a place in this movement. Bruce Danckwerts, CHOMA, Zambia
Thanks Bruce. To me, poetry and science are two paths to the same subject, which is nature. The more I learn scientifically about life and its processes, the more poetic it seems. We inhabit a miracle.
The ultimate irony is that we KNEW how to live in harmony with our surroundings for thousands of generations, before the infamous 'Dawn of Civilization,' which set us on the destructive path we now inhabit. But no worries! Mother Earth is on the case. 'Soon' when the resources on which it depends are sufficiently depleted, industrial civilization will collapse. The resulting violent chaos that will follow will eliminate all but the most adaptable among us, so our population will no longer be such a drain on the planet and its finite resources. We had all the 'science' we needed, and those who survive (if any) will once again rely on the primal instincts we followed for all but the last few 'seconds' of our species' existence.
What a beautifully grounding reflection. Most of the time our work is frustrating and I feel that we are so outside the mainstream flow of information and the tide of humanity. But your tracing of the trails and connections reminds me that in the other most of the time, I feel deeply connected to a network of people, who are deeply connected to the heartbeat of life. Thank you for this beautiful poem to remind me to open the cloud and celebrate the tiniest hairs vibrating to an unheard sound.
Just amazing Rob that another year has gone by. Feels like yesterday!
Has been too much? Has beeb too little? ...difficult to measure in the life that has spawns from this.
I heard once... "You can overestimate what you can do in one year, But you usually under estimate what can happen in three!".
One standing tree can give thousands of acorns in one autumn. You won't see the movement if you stare for a year, but it will be in the midst of time that this miracle will become. You will walk unnoticed back to this Tree after some years and then you will see the sapling.
It might be the chance that I am one of those acorns that fell from the tree your started a couple of year ago. Still working to see how this miracle unveils.
So many threads. Thanks for your part in helping to weave them.
Thanks for your work. It has been thought expanding and an exciting resource to find on the internet.
Thanks, Will. That's good to know.
Thanks Rob. Always worth reading and your poetry is the icing on top! I believe the poetry will help to expand the following as it is an effective way into people's hearts. I am not sure that I can use it to sell the concept of natural solutions to the politicians in my region, but that doesn't mean it does not have a place in this movement. Bruce Danckwerts, CHOMA, Zambia
Thanks Bruce. To me, poetry and science are two paths to the same subject, which is nature. The more I learn scientifically about life and its processes, the more poetic it seems. We inhabit a miracle.
The ultimate irony is that we KNEW how to live in harmony with our surroundings for thousands of generations, before the infamous 'Dawn of Civilization,' which set us on the destructive path we now inhabit. But no worries! Mother Earth is on the case. 'Soon' when the resources on which it depends are sufficiently depleted, industrial civilization will collapse. The resulting violent chaos that will follow will eliminate all but the most adaptable among us, so our population will no longer be such a drain on the planet and its finite resources. We had all the 'science' we needed, and those who survive (if any) will once again rely on the primal instincts we followed for all but the last few 'seconds' of our species' existence.
What a beautifully grounding reflection. Most of the time our work is frustrating and I feel that we are so outside the mainstream flow of information and the tide of humanity. But your tracing of the trails and connections reminds me that in the other most of the time, I feel deeply connected to a network of people, who are deeply connected to the heartbeat of life. Thank you for this beautiful poem to remind me to open the cloud and celebrate the tiniest hairs vibrating to an unheard sound.
I share your frustrations, Beck. But as you say, we are connected to the "heartbeat of life." and just have to keep going at it.
Rob, Another year. Thank you for path breaking work back to the land and new understandings of the rain in Spain.
Just amazing Rob that another year has gone by. Feels like yesterday!
Has been too much? Has beeb too little? ...difficult to measure in the life that has spawns from this.
I heard once... "You can overestimate what you can do in one year, But you usually under estimate what can happen in three!".
One standing tree can give thousands of acorns in one autumn. You won't see the movement if you stare for a year, but it will be in the midst of time that this miracle will become. You will walk unnoticed back to this Tree after some years and then you will see the sapling.
It might be the chance that I am one of those acorns that fell from the tree your started a couple of year ago. Still working to see how this miracle unveils.
Love the way you put this, Diego. May your acorn receive plenty of rain and healthy soil. Central Chile needs your vision. And on we go.