This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Transition Towns
Tom alerted me to this video. It is an approach to dealing with the situation we face resulting from peak oil. One thing it doesn't talk very much about is the wonders of small community and the richness of hands-on engagement in life. There are a lot of things we should be very concerned about and there are growing dangers from the ways we live in disregard to the environment, but we also need to look at those very positive aspects of community, mental health, and sense of wholeness that arise when we are actively producing and creating and growing with our own hands. When we begin to see the future as something glorious from our past we can encounter it without fear.
Oh Good! Glad you liked it :)
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No, it doesnt- I was letting that be sort of a 'gimme' though. Thats going to come through all of this in the end anyway- so we can let them think they noticed it first, eh? ;)
"sense of wholeness that arise when we are actively producing and creating and growing with our own hands. When we begin to see the future as something glorious from our past we can encounter it without fear."
Perfect! Yes!
for me, this is all about using what is true in this moment, to END fear- and meet this moment as it is... yes, perfect!
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