permaculture

[Avalon Bruce <avalonb@nwol.net>]

when i attended law school back in the 70's, THREE courses in real
property law were required.  i never made it past the first one -- two
weeks into the class, 'it' hit me right between the eyes:  all the
professor was saying was total and utter nonsense -- one could NOT 'own'
the land any more than s/he could 'own' the color of the sky, the sun,
the wind or the rain.  the rest of the semester, NOTHING i heard in
lectures made any sense. it was all jibberish.

seems some 'glitch' in the gene pool, harking back to when the Choctaw
people were 'farmers' for millennia in what we now call 'Mississippi"
rose to the surface and caused my brain to short-circuit or at least
vapor lock

i prefer 'stewardship' of land to ownership, butwe have a LONG way to go
before people quit 'buying and selling' pieces of 'dirt'

Akiva Werbalowsky wrote:
> 
> The word "Farm" has as it's root <firme> which means a financial
> payment, contract, or rent for the use of land.
>

The Earth is not given to us by our parents.
It is loaned to us by our children.