by gretel on Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:36 am
My dream is a society where food is grown close to home and everyone works at a job for which he or she is most suited. Everyone would have an art or craft and everyone would practice a movement art like tai chi or other internal martial art. There would be music and dancing every weekend and communal feasts. All the super-creative people I know would be able to spend full time working on their art. Poets, writers, artists, dancers, metal and wood workers, etc. would be valued for what they make.
Of course people would value the natural world and treat it reverently. Walking in the woods would be a favorite pastime of many.
Everyone would know the names of all the local plants and animals. They would know their river and watershed.
OK, you get the idea.
Why can't we have a society like that? Seems that we can't, but we could make it so in small ways.
gretel