Headed into Elsewhere

Links on the sidebar are all oriented toward a change in vision, in possibility, in change. My intention for this blog is as a signpost to leave the old patterns behind, as if you were seated in the back of a car accelerating down a highway into the unknown and you turn to look out the back window. What you see is a diminishing, fading picture that has less and less influence over your life and over the Earth. This to me is an apt metaphor.

I would appreciate any and all links that relate to this metaphor. I ask myself lately, "Do I need that anymore?" If I don't, I mentally sort it from my list of necessities. If it's a material thing, I sell it, give it, or toss it. If it's an old attachment or pattern, it's not as easy, but I'm working on a means to let go of these too.

It seems obvious that if we are to build a new world from the roots, we must first gently delete those things that will confuse, crowd, take up precious space. Let them go with gratitude because they taught us something we needed to know. At any rate, my next post will have to do with my thoughts on something called the "gift economy" and why we need it instead of laws that say corporations must make a profit above all else and instead of the slave economy that uses pieces of paper and metal, symbols that dehumanize and destroy.

Found this great poem by Wendell Berry:

How To Be a Poet

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill — more of each
than you have — inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your work,
doubt their judgment.

Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places.