green god

yonderland disguise

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For the most part, [the mentality of conservation] is not yet sensitive to the impact of daily living upon the sources of daily life. The typical present-day conservationist will fight to preserve what he enjoys; he will fight whatever directly threatens his health; he will oppose any environmental catastrophe that is sufficiently blatant or dramatic, such as strip-mining. But he has not yet worried much about the impact of his own livelihood or habits or pleasures or appetites. He has not, in short, addressed himself to the problem of use. He does not have a definition of his relationship to the world that is sufficiently elaborate and exact.        Wendell Barry, The Unsettling of America 1977

I felt the need to add the italics.  I also feel the need to say that the painter hired by the contractors hired by our neighbors inadvertently, but moronically, sprayed paint onto our garden.  If you have ever been given a personal tour of our garden, or know us at all, you know how important these 5000 square feet of earth are to us, and how determined we are to protect them from the toxins of this world.

Yet another lesson learned.  We are powerless to stop the toxins.  Better learn to live with them.

It still broke my heart to rip pounds and pounds of what was very recently very healthy mustard, turnip, lettuce, burdock, and quinoa greens out of the now very unhealthy ground.  They, unlike the majority of the products brought into or born out of our household, are fit only for the landfill now.

In better news, our friend Eric made a cool video about a cool place and put our music in it. Fans of the Safari Club in Estacada will most certainly enjoy the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design. Click the link or you are a fool.