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Hi, Don -
 
Of all of today's posts - which have been somewhat argumentative and some  
were just silly (aside from Gene's 'tips'), this particular post hits home. 
The  
politics and economics of our country - and other countries - do not  
interest me in the least, even though so many of you on the list are so  
knowledgeable about such things. 
 
If you don't mind, I am going to include it in the upcoming Property Owners  
newsletter.
 
We are making a great effort here to be self-sustaining. Or, some of us  are, 
anyway. There is a great proportion of senior population, and I'm guessing  
they're not expressing interest because they figure they're so close to dying 
 
that it doesn't matter.
 
One of Gene's items is particularly close to my thoughts. Listen to the  
elders. If it weren't for my beloved mother-in-law, I would not be able to 
cook,  
or clean, or to have raised my children in what was sometimes really 
primitive 
 circumstances.
 
I don't know if a small-town editor can make a difference, but I'm gonna  try.
 
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/21/2008 5:59:04 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
don.bowen AT earthlink.net writes:

Quote  from Wendell Berry's presentation at close of Slow Food Nation in  San
Francisco:

"For too long, humans have been spared, mainly by the  cheapness of the
fossil fuels, from the universal necessity of local  adaptation.

"It is ultimately an inescapable biological imperative that  human land use
economies should correspond as closely as possible to the  ecological mosaic.
To this, we no longer have even the illusion of a second  choice.

"The increasing cost of energy and the vulnerability of long  distance
transportation in an age of violence show the importance of local  food and
forest communities and the reasonable extent of local  economic
self-sufficiency  everywhere."

http://slowfoodnation.org/videos  

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