Click for larger image - Art by Mark Henson - www.sacredlight.to

"As Colin Campbell of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil explains, the important thing about energy descent is not when peak oil occurs, but rather the shift in perception that the Age of Easy Oil is drawing to a close. It is not so much the rate of change as the change of direction that is important. The concept of energy descent, and of the Transition approach, is a simple one: that the future with less oil could be preferable to the present, but only if sufficient creativity and imagination are applied early enough in the design of this transition.

"We have a choice. We can descend the hill on which we are standing if the same imagination and drive that got us to the top in the first place can be harnessed. The reality is that the only way from here is down (in energy terms), but that 'down' need not necessarily mean deprivation, misery and collapse. Trying to build a Heath-Robinson-style 'extension' to the hill (built on foundations of coal-to-liquids, tar sands and so on) - a rickety artificial slope that attempts to deny the geological reality of hte hill itself - only means that we have further to fall. The idea of energy descent is that each step back down the hill could be a step towards sanity, towards place and towards wholeness. It is a coming back to who we really are, similar to how members of a busy family rediscover each other during a power cut. Energy descent is, ultimately, about energy ascent - the re-energizing of communities and culture - and is the key to our realistically embracing the possibilities of our situation rather than being overwhelmed by their challenges."

- Rob Hopkins
"The Transition Handbook; From oil dependency to local resilience"

Art by Mark Henson - www.sacredlight.to

you're expressing in essence, the problem of a tribe of people that in the name of freedom at all cost, lost the old but very relevant values of ethics, integrity, boundaries and in the end trust...

sooooo much drama and confusion I saw spawned from this basic loss of values that I could certainly write books about it by now.

I see this process of our "nuskool tribe" with compassion as we need all the steps we take, but really, some of it was nastier than it had to be and some nasty things sure looked even uglier when dressed in pseudo-spirituality...

no valuable spiritual tradition of this world ever supports such twisted emotional dramas...

sadly, if the west is really good at something, is at quickly appropriating a belief and diluting it to suit its current needs but with complete disregard to the structure and discipline that this belief came from.

anyway, funny enough what I see is that a lot of situations like this are generated from the lack of commonly created morals and ethics that we can operate by and thus feel safe with each other. safe to explore whatever we have to, because we know that we will be respected.

alas even so, it's not always simple. cause when the ego has a breakdown it's truly hard to convince it that not everyone around is an enemy and that it's not just a poor naive victim...

so YES this whole evolution stuff is a lot of fuckin WORK, please pardon my romanian...

and yes, brutal honesty to the self is the only way to even begin to do this work.

the honesty that allows you to say, without fear: I want, I don't want, I like, I don't like, I can or I can't.

even if those conclusions are subject to change, it's soooo important to recognize them when they come...

but our self-imposed standards that we have to be free, unattached, have no expectations, love unconditionally, these standards have locked us in...

funny huh? how freedom itself becomes the cage....

cause here's the catch: until you realize that maybe you DON'T know or want to be free, that you ARE attached, that you HAVE expectations and that you love CONDITIONALLY 

and that all this DOES NOT MAKE YOU UN-EVOLVED, BUT EVOLVING and until you see this

                                                YOU CANNOT EVOLVE.

we put the carriage in front of the horse and we're surprised when we see it's not moving...

when did we ever make a collective commitment that boundaries are bad, monogamy is overrated, openness gives green light to abuse and the lack of it is "uncool", that a nervous breakdown is equal to having a terminal disease, that asking for something from a friend is a sign of weakness and that calling a friend on their shit is violating their innate right to do whatever the heck they want at any cost...

now this is not to exclude that WE ARE TRANSFORMING EVERYTHING about ourselves and that at any moment we may find ourself on either side of the fence, I for one, have definitely experienced both ends of the spectrum and found myself needing to understand or be understood...

and that when this need arises, compassion, grace, love, truthfulness, respect and clarity are ABSOLUTELY necessary elements for any real progress to be made...

sexuality and betrayal are perhaps single-handedly the biggest sources of human drama, and have been so since we have called ourselves human.

we have overthrown empires, killed thousands of people, broke nations and divided friendships over it, yet it's still present.

so it has become my habit lately, in the face of this subject to overlook the specifics and go directly to the source... it's a way to see it as a dynamic onto its own, because kept in a personal context, it's a messy thing to sort through.

every side always feels justified. every side always has a reason for it's actions. every side feels empowered to judge and ask for retribution or repentance. and so it goes...and round and round the wheel of karma spins its kaleidoscopic lessons...

the solution to this is indeed really simple I find...

it goes back to this Triangle: HONESTY-COURAGE-RESPONSIBILITY

aka

the HONESTY to know what you want or don't want

the COURAGE to stand up and do it or declare it

the RESPONSIBILITY to own your intentions and actions while facing the reactions you might have or create

be clear with these three and no drama in the world will throw you off kilter...

you might be hurt and you might hurt someone, you might regret, doubt or judge yourself, 

but in essence if you use these innate human capacities, NOTHING that you will do will be marked by confusion, victimization, blame,  anger, hate, resentment, jealousy, fear or "intentional ignorance"

we call ourselves Spiritual Warriors, or we admire others that call themselves that.

Teiwaz  the rune of the Warrior reminds us that the "battle of the Spiritual Warrior is with the self"  and that this rune is the "energy of discrimination, the swordlike quality that enables you to cut the old, the dead, the extraneous" while being patient and ready to receive assistance from the Universe.

is it ever need at this time...

a time in which LOVE beckons us from every corner of our reality asking us to BECOME IT.

and yet we are faced with this paradox...without the cutting discernment of the warrior, the illusions we entertain about ourselves and the lies we tell ourselves in order to escape internal reckoning, these lies and illusions are the very barriers we encounter in allowing LOVE in.

and here's another subtle glitch...in the process of putting LIBERATION on a pedestal, we demonized our human tendencies. we judged them until we started to believe we have to hide them, from ourselves and from one another. 

"how could I tell my partner that I want to move on? it's not integral, they will feel betrayed..."

"how could I tell my partner that I want them to stay? I'm violating their freedom with my attachment..."

and so the mind goes and so have we chained our freedom with its very own principles...

HONESTY COURAGE  RESPONSIBILITY 

to check in with yourself and check in with the other 

and to NOT BE AFRAID about what you'll discover.

to not judge and abuse or feel cheated and dramatize

yet to acknowledge truth, face it and harmonize.

cause when you see your fears in the other, when you see your doubts, when you see your attachments and than you turn around and also see theirs clearly in yourself, how on Earth can you blame anymore? how can you guilt trip? 

don't you just simply shudder with the understanding that we are all harboring monsters in our closets?

that we should maybe stop hiding them and maybe work on creating a "safe space" where they can come out to be looked at without having to bite our heads off from behind the cover of our self proclaimed holiness?

it certainly strikes me as more important.

but damn does it ever take courage. cause victim/aggressor peer pressure lurks all around ready to put us to our knees. 

"you're a monster! no! you're a monster!"

news flash, it's called "Monsters Inc" everyone! and we're all starring in it. 

along side with "We Are All Angels" which is also in the box office right about now...

sooo how about we give up acting like repressed white people and feel ok about our mistakes, fears, imbalances, "deviant" behavior and we apply that good ol' tribal ritual

bring your shit to your tribe so they can support you and the other to heal...

but here's the problem, we kinda lost that knowledge...we know how to take sides and alleviate whichever victim of the conflict is within our reach...because we're afraid that we might be in their place one day.

much harder to do is to encourage each other to be 

HONEST, COURAGEOUS and RESPONSIBLE for EVERY ACTION

and to know that we will ALL eventually be in that healing circle needing that encouragement. it's a freakin circle and we're all butt naked 'member?

only through this Fearless war with the self can the Warrior learn Peace and become Love

and only through this fearlessness can we ever truly be a family, a tribe, a couple, a unity...

till then, we have tons of work to do and it's the most honorable kind of work on this planet right now. 

it's the work of becoming the Genuine Human Being.

the one that the whole universe is looking to as a unique alchemical cauldron in which duality is being constantly poured in order to be 

BLENDED, TRANSFORMED and TRANSCENDED

so dear companion of this path Thank You for every moment

 in which your HONESTY, COURAGE and RESPONSIBILITY

have cracked another wall and allowed more light in for LOVE to seep through it...

humbly grateful to burn in the fires of transformation with you...

lovingly,

Alexandra

Permaculture People

kind greetings from the heart of another beautiful winter

all is well
as i pour myself into permaculture
as well as the ten thousand things
honored to share this year of learning with you all

in order to serve you better
i am starting this seasonal online publication called

'The Leaf and Vine'

i will try to send this supplementary material to a list of everyone in the courses or who is interested in joining a course

every season or more
if you want off this list just let me know

the permaculture curriculum is one part
in a life curriculum including integrative experiential study in the realms of
diet, health, organic gardening, as well practical life techniques and technologies
i encourage you all to supplement the course with other classes, particularly practical hands on opportunities that relate to areas of your particular interest

if you have any new information i can share in the next update that would be great
i am sure i am missing lots of stuff
its less about specific events, courses n things and more about general resources

this note is about 

1.0 education
2.0 farmers markets
3.0 list serves 
4.0 websites
5.0 seeds
6.0 plants
7.0 soil 
8.0 gaiacraft 
9.0 new PDC class in may 
10.0 new advanced class in march

1.0 education

practical hands on gardening and homestead style skills are an important upgrade to your life toolkit and would upgrade your permaculture study time greatly

these inexpensive, single day or less workshops give all manner of practical hands on homesteading style skills SUNSHINE COAST

http://onestrawliveandlearn.ca/

i highly recommend the Organic Master Gardener Course
for anyone wanting more real direct experience with growing plants
if you want to take it to the next level you can learn from two permaculture designers who are teaching

Catherine Dale <catherinedale@shaw.ca> BURNABY 
Gail Szostek <greenspaceconsulting@live.com> MAPLE RIDGE
http://www.gaiacollege.ca

2.0 winter farmers markets

sunshine coast
Roberts Creek Thursdays 3 - 7

vancouver
http://www.eatlocal.org/
East Parking Lot of Nat Bailey Stadium - 30th & Ontario Street Saturday 10 - 2

3.0 list serves 

live and learn
http://onestrawliveandlearn.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fd69197ae718ac0a3881d2fe9&id=c2781bcf5d

one straw
http://list.onestraw.ca/mailman/listinfo/osforum

van permaculture
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/vanpermaculture/?tab=s

van permaculture 117 meetup
http://www.meetup.com/The-Vancouver-Permaculture-Meetup-Group/messages/archive/

4.0 important websites to connect to

one straw society
http://www.onestraw.ca/

native plant society of BC
http://www.npsbc.org/

plants for a future
http://www.pfaf.org/user/default.aspx

village vancouver
http://www.villagevancouver.ca/

sole
http://www.organiclandcare.org

5.0 seed info from Maria of Dragonfly Seeds

What are the best local, ethical, organic seed sources?

1. Baker Creek - US company, heirloom seeds 

2. Saltspring Seeds -good selection of beans, grains and maritme northwest varieties - great website with seedsaving videos

3. Stellar Seeds - BC company, good selection

4. Full Circle Seeds (ALM Farms) - Sooke based, great lettuce

5. Dragonfly Seeds (this is my seed business, specializing in hardy varieities, grown on the Sunshine Coast) - I'll have a selection at Seedy Sat here on March 3. 

6. Two Wings Farm - Van Island, great website and heritage selection

7. Billy and Clarissa (Country Haven) - They have seeds and I hope they'll be at Seedy Sat too - quinoa, and other varieties that do well locally.

6.0 plants

anyone want to go shopping with me?

http://www.ediblelandscapes.ca/
http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/
www.gonewildplants.com
www.bcwildheritage.com
http://members.shaw.ca/nativeplants/streamside_home.html
http://www.thimblefarms.com/
http://www.fruittreesandmore.com/

7.0 soil 

if you want the bomb its
http://www.transformcompost.com/ 

or

http://www.eco-soil.com/ 

well worth it :)

8.0 gaiacraft 

if you have not signed up as a member of Gaiacraft and built a profile
that would be a great place to put a presence even if you are not going to check the website much

www.gaiacraft.com

9.0 new advanced class in march

Click for full size versioni am offering a 30 month advanced permaculture diploma program
the natural follow up to the 14 month PDC
we meet only once a season in this low cost, super flexible advanced course
that can help take your permaculture practice to the next level 

please help spread the word 

www.gaiacraft.com

10.0 new PDC class in may 

i still owe from both my last two Australia trips 
and am brimming with inspiration from all that learning :)
in this light
i will run another low cost, flexible PDC starting in May
to pay back owings from my permaculture education
if you know anyone who might be interested please let them and/or me know
and i can send them information about it 

www.gaiacraft.com

"Love doesn’t fail because we mess up from time to time. It fails when we fail to accept that we all do, and then think something is wrong instead of making things right." - tiny buddha

"The roots of anxiety are embedded
In the delusion that every one of us
Is an island unto ourselves
Alone and seperate, each from the other.
If you would be free of this suffering, 
See the workings of our mind
As but a single thought,
A retinue of gods
That vanish into the sound of 'A'
As the rainbow vanishes into the heavens"

- Kalapa (The Handsome Madman)

"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." ~Mother Teresa

"While medicine heals and poison kills,
Their ultimate essence is the same.
Both positive and negative qualities,
Are aids on the path -
The Sage rejects nothing.
Yet the unrealised fool
Five times poisoned
Is lost in Samsara"

- Ghantapa (The Celibate Monk)

“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity." -Carlos Castaneda  

"All souls are one. All existence is but the reflection of the Beloved." - Rumi 

"Surrendering means surrendering to life; surrendering to the source from where... you come and to where one day you will go back again. You are just like a wave in the ocean: You come out of the ocean, you go back to the ocean. Surrendering means trusting in the ocean -- and of course, what can a wave do except that? The wave has to trust the ocean and whether you trust or not, you remain part of the ocean. Non-trusting, you will create anxiety -- that's all. Nothing will change. only you will become anxious. tense, desperate. 

If you trust, you flower. You bloom. You celebrate. Knowing well that deep down is your mother, the ocean. When tired, you will go back and rest in her being again. When rested, you will come back again to have a taste of the sky and the sunlight and the stars.

Surrendering is trusting and it has nothing to do with any concept of any God, any ideology of any God. It is an attitude." - OSHO

"May your heart burst open in unconditional Love. May your mind be illuminated by infinite Peace. May your body be flooded by the light of your Essence. May all whom you touch in this life through your thoughts, your words and your deeds be transformed by the Radiance" - Richard Rudd

‎"If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be ten thousand secrets" ~ Attâr

Prayer is the practice of the presence of Divine. It is the place where pride is abandoned, hope is lifted, and supplication is made. Prayer is the place of admitting our need for direct Divine Dialog and of adopting humility. Prayer is the exercise of faith and hope. Prayer is the privilege of touching the heart of the Divine. ~ HealThePlanet.org

What you risk reveals what you value. ~ Jeanette Winterson

"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. " ~ Nadia Comaneci

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. " ~ William Shakespeare

"Suffering is the felt difference between what you seem to feel and what you would be feeling if you allowed yourself to feel what actually is" ~ David Deida "Blue Truth"

"When we catch a glimpse of the fact that more dollars, homes, or automobiles do not constitute supply, that more travel does not constitute recreation, that absence of illness is not necessarily health, in other words, that "My Kingdom is not of this world", we are going in the right direction to discover the realm of the Soul". ~ Joel S. Goldsmith 

‎"Change the things you can and accept the things you can't - and eventually open to feel deeper than the things you can and can't change. With practice, you can open and offer your deepest gifts no matter how things are. ... Your deepest gifts of love unfold from depth, spontaneously. Love's deep openness is your source of true change" - David Deida

"Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions" ~ Edgar Cayce

"Prayer is the inner vision of harmony. This vision is attained by giving up the desire to change or improve anyone or anything" ~ Joel Goldsmith

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Toward all living beings, 
may I cultivate a boundless heart,
above, below, and all around,
unobstructed, without hatred or resentment.
May all beings be released from suffering & attain perfect peace."

~ random bathroom wall 

"Laugh - it is nothing." ~ Amy Lowell: What's O'Clock 

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." ~ James Baldwin

"The little space within the heart
is as great as the vast universe.
The heavens and the earth are there,
and the sun and the moon and the stars.
Fire and lightening and winds are there,
and all that now is and all that is not."

~ The Upanishads

"When you stay in your True Self
you do not need to look after yourself.
A power will rise which is moving the earth,
which is causing the sun to shine,
which is giving the moon its brilliance.

When you are attuned to that power
you will have nothing to do,
everything will be beautiful.
That power will look after you
in a way which you cannot manage."

~ Papaji

"when you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back." ~ morihei ueshiba

"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love." ~ Don Juan deMarco (1995)

"effective magic is transcendent nature" ~ george eliot middlemarch 

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, 
ask yourself what makes you come alive, 
and then go and do that 
....because what the world needs 
is people who have come alive!"

~ Dr. Howard Thurman

"Light will someday split you open even if your life is now a cage… 

Love will surely burst you wide open into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy." ~ Mohammad Shams al-Din Hafez

"Artist's Prayer 

Creator of the Universe, 
How infinite and astonishing 
Are your worlds. 
Thank you, 
For your Sacred Art 
And sustaining Presence. 

Divine Imagination, 
Forgive my blindness, 
Open all my Eyes. 
Reveal the Light of Truth. 
Let original Beauty 
Guide my every stroke. 

Universal Creativity, 
Flow through me, 
From my heart 
Through my mind to my hand, 
Infuse my work with spirit 
To feed hungry souls. "

~ Alex Grey

"The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. " ~ Carlos Castaneda 

"When we discover that the imagination really is the ground of being, then it will be as if man had discovered fire for the second time. Imagination is the golden pathway to a new cultural hyperspace." ~ Terence McKenna

"He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come." ~ Gospel of Matthew 4:26 - 29

"There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead nearer than other people, and to disseminate the divine rays among humanity"  ~ Beethoven

"since everything is an illusion, 
perfect in being what it is, 
having nothing to do with good or bad, 
acceptance or rejection - 
one may well burst out in laughter." 

~ long chen pa

"declare victory and move on" ~ kitty's grandma

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung

“People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. What we seek is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel that rapture of being alive". ~ Joseph Campbell

"Then I became a bird whose body was of Oneness and whose wings were Everlastingness, and I continued to fly in the air of the Absolute until I passed into the sphere of Purification, and gazed upon the field of Eternity, and beheld there the tree of Oneness." ~ Abu Yazid of Bistam (sufi mystik)

"The elements were bestowed on us by the stars, the complex compounds given to us by the young Earth, the informed sequences of the genes by the microorganisms, our limbs and organs by advanced life forms, and the linguistic symbols carrying our thoughts and feelings by the human venture. We could not see without the work of those who shaped the eye; Could not hear without the work of those who shaped the ear. The universe created these gifts, lavishing them upon us; Our first and deepest response is infinite gratitude." ~ Brian Swimme, PhD.

"Funnily enough, scientists are currently pondering over the strange fact that the whole universe seems special. There is exactly enough material in the whole universe to make it, and the ratios between the fundamental forces seem specifically tuned to produce an amazingly complex, beautiful and enduring universe. Slightly fiddle with any bit of it and you get a universe of black holes, insubstantial fizzballs and other lifeless setups." ~ John Martineau, Acclaimed geometer

"How do you catch a beautiful bird without killing it? By becoming the sky." ~ Antero Alli 

"The River of Heaven wheels round at night 
Drifting the circling stars, 
At Silver Bank, the floating clouds 
Mimic the murmur of water. 
By the Palace of Jade the cassia blossoms 
Have not yet fallen, 
Fairy maidens gather their fragrance 
For their dangling pouches of magic. "

~ Li He

Please enjoy :

Thank you for honoring the steps it takes to move along a path and having the foresight to express that you see a new direction on the horizon.

Facebook was a step along the way. We all benefited yet we are all becoming increasingly aware that it does not suit our purposes too much anymore.

Through our innate attraction to extremes, we are learning this lesson in the same way we've learned many others. Through excess we put balance into perspective.

The beauty is that whether or not people will leave fbk, it is this realization that ushers the change. The realization we are all having as we accept we have to let go of the old trusty car/laptop/stereo/phone/social network etc. It surely comes with a good dose of nostalgia and even renewed attachment, but deep inside we are well aware that what replaces it will actually be great. Even if we frown and fidget in the beginning at the thought of the new and slightly uncomfortable tool, we secretly marvel at its attributes even prior to using it...

And here is an even more beautiful consequence: as we embraced facebook we saw its benefits and yet we began to realize that a social network created on this consumer/product structure will not and cannot work. It does not truly represent us.

Because our true desire is simply to connect and share, be that our business or our art or our art business...

We do not want to be sold, bought, counted, statiscs'fied, watched, censored and manipulated. Yet we voluntarily put our faces in the book...

But we're all grown up now. And granted there is jadedness in maturity, but there is also wisdom.

So here we are, coming out of our "facebook gestation" period, armed with new knowledge, experience, insight, tools and feedback that we can now finally start using and start building this stuff OUR WAY.

So I want to take the time at this major crossroad in social media history to say:

Thank you facebook for carrying us to this point !
Thank you everybody that supported fbk to transform into what it is!
Thank you Mark Zuckerberg (and I did have to google your name, cause my brain didn't archive that info)
thank you for selling out and selling us to the highest bidder and the toughest bully! You made us realize what it is that we don't want.
Thank you meaningless spam and content postings for teaching us how to filter our internet experience.
Thank you enforced filters for teaching us how to have a free internet experience.
Thank you to all the fbk junkies, abusers, gross marketers, stalkers, friend adding fiends, status quo obsessives, VIP chase'ers, "I will make my most personal problems public talk for my fbk tribe" drama queens, my life is great" illusion creators, hardcore conspiracy cooks, relentless petition activists, relentless quote'ers, New Age freaks, "I wanna tell you what I do every moment" post'ers, compulsive like'ers, compulsive hate'ers, attention whores and all the wonderful nemesis' that we all have become at times but that we all love to hate.

Thank you ALL for making this whole facebook period of our history such a truly enjoyable ride through human nature and consciousness!

I for one, gladly joined in and participate still, as this is by far the most incredible exercise in collective cyber living we have ever performed as a race.

But here's the catch. History shows. Be part of the period, identify with the period if you will but;
Use the process. Analyze the process. Question the process. Discard the process. Reinvent the process and you are truly creating history not merely being the stats and specs for it's generic summaries.

That said, I am truly and excitedly looking forward to the reinvention on social media, "by the people, for the people" as good ol' Abbie was proposing. (pun intended)

Meanwhile I will Post and Like and Comment and Share in fbk and outside until we all figure our where this whole thing is going to. Cause heck, this is waaaay to much fun and waaaay to educational not be fully part of.

So I'm merely contemplating that maybe it's time to stop acting like junkies that want to hide their addiction, or like righteous conservatives that harshly judge those junkies.

Maybe it's time to take a broader look at a cultural reality that represents all of us, junkies, judges and the impartial. A reality in which facebook was essential, superfluous, positive, damaging, creative, dumb'ing, organized, chaotic, inspirational, disgusting and absolutely inevitable. 
And seen as an inevitable cultural expression of the whole globe, what purpose is there in either aggressively blaming it, blindly defending it or ostentatiously ignoring it?

How about we see it for what it is? How about we asses the advantages of its existence as a medium, draw an informed conclusion of its shortcomings and proceed in upgrading, adapting and why not replacing it according to our present needs?

After all Zuckerberg was a geek that invented a genius way to pick up girls... not even 10 years later politicians give Likes to Anonymous messages and Bjork gets 10.000 comments on a post that she "has the flu"...

What if the new reason for the new media we the people create, could be a little more broad than "broads"? (no pun intended for Zuckerberg's lady targets)

I mean, just saying, what if the world's incredible community if Internet creators draws its creative sword and delivers us all from the battle field of social network compromise?

And if any of you out there are already on the mission, first of all THANK YOU and do please let us know how we can help, cause heck, we sure have learned we can do more than press Like and Attend....

Meanwhile, you bet I'm posting this on fbk...

see you at Home ;)

Click for bigger versionThe sigil on the back of this beautiful vest (the first of a several part outfit), was chanelled from the mother of medicines, by myself. In the following image you can see the original painting that I did to bring through this magical symbol.

Click for larger image!Look at what a beautiful job Ocean did of bringing that symbol to life!

Click for larger version

For the next piece of this project, I am creating Ocean's website for her thing, Ulantia Studios... but you can find her on Facebook at this link.