11/11/2022
Over sunset, Hootie and I harvested 20 pounds of sunchokes and potatoes with many yet to harvest! Abundance can be normal. Imagine walking down your street lined with front yard gardens and lush produce for all to share. Sound good? Let's plant seeds of the future together.
"One doesn’t need to occupy a position of power to change the world. Think of some of the most influential people down through history - Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tsu, Rumi, Mozart, Van Gogh, Walt Whitman, Helen Keller, Gandhi, Maria Montessori, Einstein, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Malala, etc.
The most influential human beings rarely had power over others, yet their impact upon human growth, learning, culture and experience was tremendous. What they had was wisdom, skillfulness, imagination, vision and love. Which they shared freely, inspiring others, sparking new ways of thinking, behaving and experiencing life.
That’s how revolutions are set in motion. That is how the world is changed.
We have a choice now, to focus on what’s falling apart (where we will continuously be feeling fearful and angry), or to come together to create a better world.
This is the challenge (and opportunity) before us, to ignore the false narratives of fear that the media and governments will be sharing. To build grassroots systems of democracy, economics, education, alternative media, technology and cultural innovation that take root, like trees and gardens, becoming bigger (and more influential) in the coming years.
To create a new world for the human species, for our families, for the other species that exist in Nature and for all future generations."
- Christopher Chase