It's been a quiet week for me, as far as Occupying anything. With a day off and renewed energy, I expect to get out to some of today's activities--the UNM teach-in, for starters.
I've been all out just getting through the work day and commute, while trying to catch up on sleep. I'm happy to report my energy clearing up after some weeks of a mystery illness. I am quite sure it was a form of very effective prayer which dissolved the stagnation, allowing my body to recover. It was all I could do, while fumbling ineptly through the medical system trying to get an appointment.
Thank God for internal resources!
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It's the first day in a while I've felt like walking. The combination of the morning coolness and the beauty of Silver Avenue brought me great gratitude for this moment. I have lived in some amazingly beautiful places--a few blocks from lovely beaches of OB, at the very edge of Arroyo Hondo in Santa Fe, here... I've been very fortunate.
The constant moves are of course a mixed blessing. They have fostered an appreciation of the passing moments of aliveness in each place, concomitant with a growing non-attachment. At 48, I am ready to begin the process of actually settling somewhere. I am not sure where, or what the exchange will be. I seek community in a deeper sense, a vibrational priority, and service.
In 51 days, the quest begins. On January 1, 2012, my current rental will come to an end. I intend to terminate my current employment on the same day. Ironically or not, the path to settling on a home appears to begin with massive travel. Invitations to Central America and Europe open up avenues to explore permaculture projects, spiritual communities, education in nonviolent social transformation, and direct service to others.
I will likely return in late spring to the states and continue this unfoldment, with a mind to focus on direct service such as hospice, helping the homeless, and supporting those with severe disabilities.
All of these activities are within the curriculum of what I call contribution economics. Each arises from a sovereign place of being within the self, and extends outward to meet the world. Each is sourced not in debt, but in a place of infinite abundance.
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It has become clear that debt-based money has been the primary vehicle for the generation of wars, enslavement, poverty, and environmental destruction. Interest = Inflation = Tax = Usury. Certainly there is value in addressing, even empathically, the intentions of those, the 1%, who create and perpetuate this system of domination.
There is also value in just getting beyond their destructive system, into those honest exchanges by which individuals and societies truly and mutually benefit.
Whether one is a Tea Partier or an Occupier, one thing is becoming clear. The values of these United States have been, perhaps primarily, an ongoing centuries-long struggle between debt-based manipulations and the free exchanges by which humans arrive at their natural inclinations for mutual support, peace and prosperity, social progress and environmental care.
This is my agenda.
I've been all out just getting through the work day and commute, while trying to catch up on sleep. I'm happy to report my energy clearing up after some weeks of a mystery illness. I am quite sure it was a form of very effective prayer which dissolved the stagnation, allowing my body to recover. It was all I could do, while fumbling ineptly through the medical system trying to get an appointment.
Thank God for internal resources!
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It's the first day in a while I've felt like walking. The combination of the morning coolness and the beauty of Silver Avenue brought me great gratitude for this moment. I have lived in some amazingly beautiful places--a few blocks from lovely beaches of OB, at the very edge of Arroyo Hondo in Santa Fe, here... I've been very fortunate.
The constant moves are of course a mixed blessing. They have fostered an appreciation of the passing moments of aliveness in each place, concomitant with a growing non-attachment. At 48, I am ready to begin the process of actually settling somewhere. I am not sure where, or what the exchange will be. I seek community in a deeper sense, a vibrational priority, and service.
In 51 days, the quest begins. On January 1, 2012, my current rental will come to an end. I intend to terminate my current employment on the same day. Ironically or not, the path to settling on a home appears to begin with massive travel. Invitations to Central America and Europe open up avenues to explore permaculture projects, spiritual communities, education in nonviolent social transformation, and direct service to others.
I will likely return in late spring to the states and continue this unfoldment, with a mind to focus on direct service such as hospice, helping the homeless, and supporting those with severe disabilities.
All of these activities are within the curriculum of what I call contribution economics. Each arises from a sovereign place of being within the self, and extends outward to meet the world. Each is sourced not in debt, but in a place of infinite abundance.
-----
It has become clear that debt-based money has been the primary vehicle for the generation of wars, enslavement, poverty, and environmental destruction. Interest = Inflation = Tax = Usury. Certainly there is value in addressing, even empathically, the intentions of those, the 1%, who create and perpetuate this system of domination.
There is also value in just getting beyond their destructive system, into those honest exchanges by which individuals and societies truly and mutually benefit.
Whether one is a Tea Partier or an Occupier, one thing is becoming clear. The values of these United States have been, perhaps primarily, an ongoing centuries-long struggle between debt-based manipulations and the free exchanges by which humans arrive at their natural inclinations for mutual support, peace and prosperity, social progress and environmental care.
This is my agenda.
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