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  • From: robert waldrop <rmwj@soonernet.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Happy Pilgrims..
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:46:46 -0500

I think this concluding paragraph of your note is undoubtedly true. I
used to be quite the traveller, generally averaging 26,000 miles/year on
my vehicle, 1987 to 1997. It didn't take much encouragement at all for
me to hop in the car for a long road trip. I had ambitions of going to
Europe and travelling across Asia on the Trans Siberian Railway. I
loved flying on airplanes.

But somehow, in recent years, all that restlessness has gone away. my
last out of state road trip was 2 years ago, for a funeral of a life
long friend in Utah. i've done some instate travelling, mostly related
to our local food project, but I resist the idea of long trips these
days. My neighborhood is just fine for me. it's a very interesting
place.

I suppose it is dangerous to generalize, but over the last few decades
Americans have become increasingly disconnected from any sense of
place. People don't live in the place their great grandparents lived.
They may not even know the names of their neighbors on either side of
them or across the street. So lacking a local culture, which gives us
some clues as to who and what we are, we are incessantly in search for
culture. So we pay big bucks to go on tours and photograph "natives"
doing "indigenous dances". our own real estate is a boring monoculture,
so we travel to national parks to see diversity and beauty.

Robert Waldrop OKC

Marsha Hanzi wrote:
>I think the simpler lifestyle that Permaculture offers,
>where you are not separated by air conditioning from the
>night breeze, where you put your own hands into the dirt,
>has this effect ( even being a design system with
>alternative technologies etc..) It seems to me that just the
>simpleness of it diminishes the distance between us and the
> world that surrounds us...So willing or not, it brings in
>integration in a profounder sense, moving into the direction
>of a new definition of happiness as quality of life...
>
> Marsha




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