Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Marty Kraft <martyk@allspecies.org>]

Santa Fe, Chris Wells has a song that goes, "They say it was about  
sex and drugs. I say it was about compassion, consciousness and love,  
love for the Earth...

That was the best of what the 60s were about. That's the part that I  
reference when I need a norm different than some I see today. Those  
were dark times and great times. A lot of people tried their best to  
love their neighbor and love the creation. Most fell short and  
stalled out but they tried. Now we need to do more than try.

Marty
On May 6, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Gloria Baikauskas wrote:

> Not all of us lived in Haight-Ashbury, or in California.  I was  
> going to college at the time.  The rent on the commune wasn't  
> free.  We had to pay the rent with jobs.  We had to eat because we  
> didn't get free handouts of food.  We did, however, feed those who  
> didn't have food when it came up.
>
> PBS makes it sound like it only all happened in San Francisco.  It  
> didn't....and it may have died out there and turned into a disaster  
> of humankind....but that didn't happen that way everywhere.
>
> It was a mindset......that connectedness.  The idea that we should  
> do no harm to others, nor to the world we lived in.
>
> I have grown up a lot since then....but much of what I learned then  
> has stayed with me.  Especially the idea that doing the right thing  
> is more important than doing the easy thing.
>
> In time even that commune became corrupted because kids from all  
> over the country would show up with their idea of what that  
> lifestyle was supposed to be.  We all left....some of them stayed.   
> I would imagine they lived that lifestyle until the rent was not  
> paid long enough .....then maybe moved on elsewhere.  I really  
> don't know.   The media did quite a bit of damage in that  
> way...much as they do now.  They clouded it with drugs, the great  
> unwashed masses and free love.  It wasn't only that....and really  
> not even all of that.
>
> Gloria
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