permaculture

[Annie Pollock <anniepollock@tiscali.co.uk>]

As part of a Steiner based community, I feel I can make a suggestion 
here.  In my community, we constantly find ourselves having to re 
examine our ethics and motives, look ahead to where we are going and 
pause to reflect on where we have been. It's essential, both to make 
sure we are going in the right direction and to have the 'right' answers 
for new people who join us.
Times change, what was in the forefront of ecology or people ethics 30 
years ago needs to be updated. It is nothing to do with political 
correctness - (that's a superficial thing) but  about what is real now.
The young people coming forward are the future, I don't see the pointt 
of sidelining them with an 'I am older ,wiser and more experienced' 
approach. They are faced with a longer life in a more fragile world than 
you or I grew up in and have a sharper sense for bullshit of any kind, a 
great strength, I think.
 Inspire people - you have the platform.
Where is the moverment going?  From hummus to hubris? ;-)

( british humour, an acquired taste maybe... but Steiner had a lot to 
say about the importance of humour, even if he was German) .....
 Annie