permaculture

[KAKerby@aol.com]

No worries.  I have been on this list for a little while now, mostly  as a 
lurker, just reading and wondering if I'd ever have much to  contribute.  I 
have been a fan of permaculture ever since finding  Mollison's book in a 
used book store.  I brought it home, started thumbing  through it, and ended 
up 
devouring it like some long lost literary  treasure.  It all just made so 
much sense.  Read more as I could find  it, subscribed to Permaculture 
magazine for awhile, and I've tried to find  ways to keep tabs on what was 
going 
on in various permaculture circles even  though I was usually on the outside 
looking in.  I had the same reaction  when I read through my first 
aquaponics information.  We have only started  to dabble in permaculture 
here, and 
we've not done nearly as much as I'd like  with aquaponics either for that 
matter.  But there's just so much potential  for each, and conventional ag is 
so very diseased on so very many levels, surely  there is some common ground 
there to work with.
 
As for the writing, you can send your thanks to the various editors I've  
had over the years, in various stints as a writer for this-or-that  
publication.  I did environmental writing for several years, newspaper  
writing for 
several years, and advocacy writing in between for various  issues.  Some of 
you may recall an article about keeping rabbits in colony  housing a number 
of years ago in a permaculture magazine.  Yep, that was  me.  I've been 
doing writing like that for nearly 25 years.  And I've  had lots of very 
sharp 
editors, who would very quickly take me to task for any  statement made which 
I couldn't back up, or explain to a wide range of audiences  with different 
levels of education and understanding.  So all those moments  of being 
scolded to "keep it simple, keep it straightforward, talk to your  audience 
but 
not at them" - that's all from those marvelous editors who kept me  at my 
desk late into the night until I got it right.  With me cursing them  under 
my 
breath the whole time.  I trust the Universe will somehow give  them the 
message that yes, I did eventually learn at least some of what they  were 
trying to teach me. Still working on the rest.  Aren't we all?
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
 
 
In a message dated 10/9/2012 5:02:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
toby@patternliteracy.com writes:

I'm  grateful to Kathryn K for staying so level-headed and reasonable in 
the face  of some assumptions not well based in fact.