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  • From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Happy Pilgrims..
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:23:10 -0700 (PDT)

Aloha,

I like your observation, Marsha, and I tend to agree with it...every time
I 'get rid' of some 'stuff' I always feel better, freer and lighter
(though there may be some grieving involved, depending on my attachment to
the 'stuff' in question.

Pretty much everything I had there (except my car, which was merely
ransacked) was stolen from my place in Hawai'i while I was away last time.
Along with my anger and grief, I also felt a definite sense of freedom or
liberation (eventually...but even from the start it was there a little).

I realized a couple years back that one of the main reasons I like
traveling under my own human power (backpacking, bicycle touring,
kayaking/canoeing) is that I simplify my life greatly during such a trip.
If it's not in my pack/bike bags/drybags I obviously don't need it...and
if I do, oh well, I'll get by fine without it. And I don't like carrying
much - I pack pretty light on such trips.

> 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...

Also makes more space for being together as human beings - not so many
distractions from that available with less 'stuff' around. The root of
'community' and 'communion' is the same word...



John Schinnerer, MA
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Cultural & Ecological Designing
People - Place - Learning - Integration
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