Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Debbie Mcdonald <belynor@sbcglobal.net>]

Thanks Tommy. As to the statement by Bradshaw, I have not found falling in 
love with another human, though wonderful, to bring near the same feeling as 
the sense of JOY I feel in times of walking in, or even driving and viewing 
nature at certain times. There have even been times when the colors of the 
leaves on trees seemed to be hyper in appearance to me and I asked my 
daughter if she thought it seemed that way and she had no response, lol. My 
husband passed three years ago and I am still grieving but one thing we could 
not share was my love for nature as he just did not have any of it in him. 
His hobby was skeet shooting, lol
  I did my own driving and looking for this land and it took over two years 
as I wanted to be inspired and joyous and to be so in love with the land and 
wake up each day and give thanks that this is what I have. I hope that does 
not sound shallow for it is not in any way, it is that these old tall 
trees(for texas;) and the jillion birds and all the other animals and the 
sound of the water etc, the ferns in the low spots where the water runs, I 
just cannot feel depressed when I am smart enough to focus on these things. I 
wish the area was less populated:).     

--- On Sun, 1/17/10, Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Permaculture - Farms for the Future
> To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 8:47 PM
> The spiritual aspect of reconnecting
> with nature was not avoidable,  
> even for my scientist (geophysicist/geologist) wife, when
> we lived in  
> a Permaculture design.  It's not just the plants,
> though.  It's all of  
> nature.  Nature is my Higher Power (I've been happily
> sober for three  
> months and twenty three years today).
> 
> Yes, I think the idea is to make the future better than the
> past.   
> Plato said that the meaning of human existence is found in
> relations.   
> It's taken twenty five hundred years, but we're finally
> getting it.   
> Jesus only gave one commandment: love each other. 
> We're not even  
> close on that one, as far as I can tell.  But that's
> where living in  
> relations with the land, with "all our relations," takes
> us, sooner or  
> later, I think.  John Bradshaw once described it as an
> oceanic feeling  
> of secure connection with all that exists.  He was
> talking about the  
> context of two people falling in love, though.
> 
> One thing is for sure.  We in the US can no longer
> live a lifestyle  
> supported by exploiting Others (we're less than five
> percent of the  
> global population yet we consume forty three percent of
> global  
> resource production each year).  We have to come back
> down to Earth  
> and join life in progress.  I think a load gets off of
> us as soon as  
> we do that.  It's certain that our relations with our
> fellow species  
> members will immediately improve.
> 
> Smiles.
> Tommy