We are probably all too busy writing our own to read anyone elses.
Is it merely a new form of vanity publishing or a vent for stress?
I know I'm enjoying writing these pieces, and they do have a noble intent.
- I see a time coming shortly when we will need to settle into living more closely with the actual piece of Earth we are living on.
Not just as oil supplies shrink, but because present detached lifestyles are killing our spirit
And the Earth.
Part of that new-found intimacy will involve working on a 'peasant' scale again, on the land and sea.
A paddle-powered fishing fleet is a serious suggestion.
I am living in a valley that has been a hot-bed of such thinking.
A lair of dissent.
It was the home of that guru of self-sufficiency, John Seymour, and is the setting for Brithdir Mawr, a low-impact community.
It's so beautiful here, with the sea a few miles away, deciduous woods and old field patterns still in good heart, that it's relatively easy to envisage a positive future.
What we have to do is imagine it into being in places that have been damaged and sanitised by present practices.
I notice though how quickly things respond to our intentions once we express them. First we have to dare to imagine them.
This blog is hopefully part of that imagining.