I am an abject failure. I do not say this from some depressed state, some suicidal thought, some tendency to self-flagellate. It is not some morbid attempt to heap shit on myself. It is simply that I recognise my own limitations, my unfulfilled hopes and desires. It is an acknowledgement that my vision is greater... Continue Reading →
Solutions – A Stitch In Time
If you wish to start at the beginning of this series, go here. Just Suppose... What if you found yourself in a situation of need to sew something as an emergency repair, a patch or even in the act of making something? "Oh, I would get my electric sewing machine out" you say. But what... Continue Reading →
A Challenge! – Part 3 – Identifying And Categorising The Problems
If you wish to start at the beginning of this series, go here. Backtracking Note: I realised when I started this post that I had already strayed from my original tentative plan and I needed to go back and complete Part 2 by finding where I digressed and correcting that. That has now been done... Continue Reading →
A Challenge! – Part 2 – Setting The Stage
Where To Start? This is the second part of my response to a request to outline my views on the broader aspects of how we might tackle whatever situation that may confront us in the future, assuming that this will be a rather different set of circumstances than most of us, at least in the... Continue Reading →
A Challenge!
What, Why, Where, How? Sometimes I wonder why I don't just mind my own business and be content to just read stuff instead of finding it necessary to comment on what others have written. In times past, that is exactly what I would have done but with recognition comes responsibility. Since I became aware some... Continue Reading →
Edge Living
Living at the edge. That is where I have been for the last few years now, by choice. 'At the edge' is where things happen. It is where all change begins. It is the place where the most activity abounds as you will know if you have studied permaculture. It is the boundary region between... Continue Reading →
2014, The Year Everything Changes
"It's The System, Stupid!" - US Ex-President, Bill Clinton It is the system. The system is corrupt and bears us (you and me) no good will. The system must go. Democracy is dead. Overpowered, overcome and taken over by Corporate lobbyists, Corporate greed and Corporate money. Well, actually, democracy is not quite dead but has... Continue Reading →
Why Don’t People Understand?
Why Are People (Generally) Not Concerned By What Is Going On In The World? This is the thing that perplexes me more than any other question (and I do have a lot of questions) that occupies my inquisitive mind. I spend a lot of time thinking about, and writing about, matters that should be of... Continue Reading →
CASSE Hope
I, along with a host of others including some famous or household names, signed the CASSE position statement a number of years ago. CASSE is the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. A steady state economy is something that may never be achieved before the economy we have actually self implodes but... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 