Isolation, or alone
The birds and trees accept their home.
Home I’ve been given is fair but run down;
maintenance I’m on the ground.
Where to now? I ask myself
I seem to change so much in health
Love and help from those who count;
the future’s hand is eased of doubt
Floating fairy
still as can be.
in sleepy haze
you reflect what I see.
Bubbles rise
and bubbles subside
calm and still you never hide.
Love is a dream of a path to a door,
a bright light wonder, I can’t ignore.
Love is the spiral of upstream gold,
you nourish the roots that are worn and old.
Love is the touch on my heart you bring,
inspiring my soul to dance and sing.
Love is the rock you are for me,
when I need supporting in the sea.
Love is the armbands you place on my arms,
you care for me well;
protect me from harm
Love is the flower, I see in you,
that says your door, is shinning too.
Love is you and Love is me
we are one,
in this we’re free
I love your love, I love mine too
because you are me and me is you
thanks pickle - i love you loads Annie -x-
Introduction:
Many people all over the planet know of Earthships. But few really know what they are and fewer still know what the effort is really all about. Some think they are just buildings made of old tires - “what a neat idea” - they think. Others think they are solar buildings made of recycled materials - “great”. Still others are aware of the fact that they are an attempt (getting quite successful) at making totally sustainable homes from by-products of our society. Even this is still an incomplete understanding.
Plants of various types and species once covered the planet. Their existence made the planet more. They contributed to - they were - the nature of the planet. Now, it is humanity that is becoming the nature of the planet. There is a major difference. Plants have a way of unconsciously and continuously making the planet better for themselves and other creatures. Humans have a way of consciously and continuously making the planet worse for themselves - and for plants and other creatures.
My reaction to this is that, the more we interact with and learn from plants and the Earth, the more we will learn about our own survival. Our life methods must evolve to be more like those of planets. Intelligence or not, plants have it together on the Earth - we don’t.
The Earthship concept is an effort to slowly evolve humanity in a direction - a method of life - that continuously improves that life by its very nature. This involves changing building methods, changing utility methods, changing living methods, and ultimately changing thinking and understanding methods. This is a journey, the destination of which cannot be perceived - only imagined.
The Earthship concept must be elastic enough to presently conform to existing dogma while strong enough to evolve that dogma in the future. It will cause some pain in terms of disruption of the “tried and true”. It will enter every arena that exists and grow like a virus as it effects the thinking of what happens tomorrow while flavoring the reality of what is happening today.
It is now only a seed being planted everywhere. As this seed grows, we will find that we are making homes and sanctuaries for plants instead of human leaders, kings and politicians, because it is plants that will truly be guiding us and nurturing us, not human leaders, kings and politicians. We have recreated the world - it doesn’t work. Now we must find the humility to follow and emulate other forces on this planet. The Earthship is the vessel toward that end.
- Michael Reynolds
New earth ship coffee table book is on sale now.
What we believe in, value, love and experience joy through
VS
How we act, what we say and what we experience everyday
Let’s take the acorn as a metaphor for transformation. It comes from the oak tree, it has all the attributes of the oak in potential, but it sure looks different. If it were a human being it might not remember being part of the original whole tree. It has a hard shell, a boundary; and might feel it must maintain this boundary to survive. Our egos and small selves can be seen as this boundary, this shell. We just want to “be ourselves” and get along with the other acorns. There are plenty of psychological methods and books and workshops that merely make us better acorns. For instance, trying to understand the acorn of the opposite sex, or the aggressive acorn, or the humble acorn, etc are all working at making the acorn shell more important and easier to understand.
Transcending the shell must feel like that little death we all heard about on the spiritual road. It means transforming from an acorn into a growing, becoming tree. We don’t know anything else besides being an acorn. Our integrity, our very being, seems to be falling apart. We may have read a lot about trees, we may dream about trees, but actually becoming one means real change, real transformation. A magazine article noted that many people talk about wanting to “go to heaven”, but if you ask if someone wants to go to heaven right now, or offered them the opportunity for instant enlightenment, very few are ready to accept all the changes involved in that transformation.
Most people are at the stage of feeling the pressure to break the shell, to grow and transform into the tree, their whole, complete divinity, but it is not always easy. Spiritual growth is not merely adding on new knowledge. It’s actually seeing the world from a new perspective. We often talk about re-building our old house. First we must tear down the existing one and then rebuild with the salvaged materials and more; not just add on rooms.”
What do I (we) need to do to achieve what..
I (we) want?
What do I (we) need to let go of in order to gain..
What I (we) desire?
Am I.., are we on course or way off it?
