[We apparently have to have a talent show for our Permaculture class. Being rather talentless, I was somewhat inspired to write a poem (in a poor imitation of Blake). I don't write poems often (or at all), and again, this is obviously the first draft of a rough idea... but here ya...

I wonder why the word “nature” is used to describe such radically different things. One definition includes all the trees, rocks, grass, water, animals, sands… those places and things which are least touched by mankind. But another definition is used to describe the inner behavior of...

Final Paper for Deep Ecology, Part 1: Personal Myth Ron Khare This is who I was: When the imagination of the Great Unmanifest stirred and brought forth the potential for all of Creation, I came into existence. I am, or was, the expression of pure geometry, crossing lines inside a perfect...

Reading: Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin, chapters 1, 3 and 7 “A man walks down the street   It’s a street in a strange world   Maybe it’s the Third World   Maybe it’s his first time around   He doesn’t speak the language  He holds no currency...

http://www.equip.org/articles/yoga-meditation-in-the-classroom The above link is an excellent example of a conservative Christian movement against the influx of “Eastern” spiritualism in America. The basis of their argument stems from what must be an understandable confusion:...