There is a brisk North wind blowing. It is late Morning, 58 degrees F. and that will be the high for today. More than twenty degrees cooler than yesterday. We are suppose to have frost by Morning. Autumn can come quickly in Minnesota. In this part of the state, we generally have the first light frost by the middle of September. We are ready. We will need to cover the tomatoes. Hopefully, there will be several more ripening days.
Our neighborhood party was a success. Most of the families who live around here, are descendents of the settlers, who arrived in the middle and late nineteenth century. There are always families that come and go and some stay. We have been here since 1975. We are still new comers, and probably will be so, if we live here a hundred years. However, we are accepted into the community; for the most part the old families are happy to see new arrivals. One of our neighbors, an old family, has an annual Christmas Party; a Summer party rotates around the neighborhood. A great opportunity to get acquainted and keep acquainted.
We have a walkway paved with building bricks, the kind with holes in, weeds and grass like to propagate in the holes and between the bricks. I don't mind too much, but other family members find it unsightly. Two or three times a year we remove the invading plants. I was using my electric weed whip to clean up the walkway and I was thinking how wonderful technology was. I remember being down on my hands and knees using a hand shear for the same job. When I was a child, we would visit my great aunts house and help her clean up her yard. I spent many an hour, with a hand shear, going around rocks, surrounding her gardens.
I find that many people are troubled by the use of technology in our upcoming world. They see, correctly I think, that technology in our world, has separated people from nature. They dream of a world where we see our oneness with nature. Is technology really the cause of our separation with nature? I don't think so. Technology facilitated the separation from nature, but, it wouldn't of happened, if it wasn't for powerful forces encouraging the separation. For two thousand years, the church has demonized nature; people were taught not to trust nature. Women and men, who sought herbal remedies, were often accused of witchery and wizardry. Too much trust in nature was suspect, unless it was cloaked in church approved prayer. When technology came along, instead of freeing man, it enslaved them. There has always been a leisure class, before and after the institution of technology. Perhaps, technology expanded the leisure class, but I suspect, for most people, it just changed the nature of their work. People work way, way, too hard and much more than they need to, to provide a good living.
I wouldn't be writing this blog if it wasn't for technology. I don't think I would be willing to master a typewriter. I have tried that. And, of course you wouldn't be reading it.
Technology frees man to discover and become one with nature. We are creative beings of high order, we should not be grubbing our way through life by necessity. Working in the garden is a great joy. If it isn't, occupy yourself with something new. Or ask yourself, why isn't this joyful? Many times we find things drudgery, only because we think we should. We have these bodies that are part of nature and interact with nature; it is enjoyable to get down and dig in the dirt, smell the earth, push seeds down into the soil, with the expectation that a plant will grow that will nourish your body.
In a world created by love you would find the occupation that best expressed the love you felt for yourself and humankind. No one would be doing what they did not want to do. Imagine the release free energy will provide. Imagine the ability to travel anywhere in the world. Imagine the time and freedom to find out what nature is about. It is time end our separation with nature. Then, just maybe, we can find out who we really are. After all, we are not just bodies.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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