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                        OUR WORLD EXISTS IN A VAST SPACE UNFATHOMABLE EVEN TO
                                    OUR SCIENTISTS. SPACE IS NOT COMPLETELY VOID OF THE STUFF OF
                                               LIFE. OUR TINY BLUE WORLD OF WATER TEACHES US THIS
                                                     WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SMALL THINGS THAT MAKE UP
                                                        THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD. WITH ALL OF THE THINGS
                                                          OUR TINY WORLD OFFERS US. WE SEEM TO BE CONFUSED
                                                      WHEN IT COMES TO ABUNDANCE VERSES CONSERVATION.

MANY OF US ARE ASKING SCIENCE TO REVEAL TECHNOLOGY WE KNOW EXISTS BUT THEIR
HANDS ARE TIED BY GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY AND CORPORATE GREED AND SO WE ARE LEFT
TO EVOLVE OUR OWN LIFESTYLES WITH A FOCUS ON GIVING BACK, WHILE TAKING LESS IN AN
ATTEMPT TO LESSON OUR INDIVIDUAL IMPACT ON OUR FRAGILE, FINITE WORLD OF BOUNTY.

MY FRIEND BONNY AND I TOOK A HARD LOOK AT WHAT WE COULD DO TO CREATE INDIVIDUAL
HOMES IN THE MOUNTAINS, THAT WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE TO OTHERS. WE ARE CREATING A
HEALING SPACE WHERE SHE COULD OFFER HER MASSAGE THERAPY AND I COULD CREATE MY
ART AND MUSIC. FINALLY AFTER TWO YEARS OF HARD WORK WE ARE SEEING THIS DREAM
COME TO FRUITION.

WE ARE BUILDING TWO "DELTEC" ( 12 SIDED HOMES). ONE IS BONNY'S WHILE THE OTHER IS
MINE. THEY ARE POWERED BY 12 VOLT BATTERIES AND AN ARRAY OF SOLAR PVC'S AND SOON TO
BE "WIND CATCHERS" (MY WORD FOR WIND GENERATORS).

MY FLUTE SHOP IS RUN ON A SEPARATE 12 VOLT SYSTEM AND HAS A CISTERN PIPED INTO THE
RAIN GUTTERS FOR WATER STORAGE THAT WE USE FOR THE GARDENS OR ANY OTHER PROJECTS
THAT NEEDS WATER.

WE ALSO PLANTED GARDENS WHERE ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL FLOWERS SHARE SPACE ALONG
WITH THREATENED SPECIES FROM THE MAINE WOODS. I ALSO TEND VEGGIE GARDENS WHICH
WE SUPPLEMENT OUR NUTRITIONAL NEEDS WITH.

"ONCE WHILE DRAWING WATER OFF FROM THE 165 GALLON CISTERN TO FEED THE TOMATOES I
LOOKED OVER AT MY FRIEND BONNY AND SAID "LOOK BONNY, THIS WATER WAS A GIFT I
CAPTURED FROM GRANDFATHER SKY IN MY CISTERN USING A PASSIVE SYSTEM OF RAIN GUTTERS
AND NOW I AM FILLING A VESSEL USING A SMALL 12 VOLT PUMP POWERED BY BATTERIES THAT
ARE CHARGED EVERY DAY BY THE GIFT OF GRANDFATHER SUN. THIS IS ONE WAY THAT WE ARE
LESSONING OUR HUMAN IMPACT ON OUR BEAUTIFUL WORLD". BONNY WAS ON HER WAY TO
THE COMPOST BIN TO DISCARD PLANT MATERIAL FROM THE GARDENS THAT WILL LATER FEED
THOSE SAME GARDENS. GARDENS THAT WILL ONE DAY ALSO FEED THE HUNGRY BY PLANTING
EXTRA ROWS FOR THOSE WHO ARE TEMPORARILY UNABLE TO FEED THEMSELVES.

AND SO AS YOU SEE TECHNOLOGY HAS EXISTED FOR MANY YEARS THAT CAN HELP EACH OF US
MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IT SEEMS THAT THE "GREEN" TREND IS A FAD BUT IT IS MY HOPE THAT THIS
FAD WILL BECOME A PERMANENT IDEOLOGY. I BELIEVE AS OTHERS DO THAT WE MUST MOVE
INTO A MORE POSITIVE, LOW IMPACT LIFESTYLE THAT IS MORE ABOUT GIVING THAN TAKING
AND WE MUST DEMAND OUR GOVERNMENTS AND OUR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDISED
CORPORATIONS TO RELEASE THE NEW TECHNOLOGY AND INSURE IT IS NOT SO EXPENSIVE THAT
ONLY THE ELITE RICH CAN AFFORD. I BELIEVE THAT THIS ONE UNSELFISH ACT WILL FREE US
FROM THE ADDICTION OF PETROLEUM, ONCE AND FOR ALL.

LIVING AS MY FRIEND AND I DO ALSO HELPS STRENGTHEN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR EARTH
MOTHER AND THE OTHER LIFE FORMS THAT WE SHARE THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD WITH. I BELIEVE
THAT A LARGE PORTION OF OUR HUMAN POPULATION I S SO DISCONNECTED THAT WE HAVE
BECOME DISEASED. WE ARE SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF "NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER SYNDROME".
THE GREED, IGNORANCE AND VIOLENCE THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING GLOBAL WIDE CAN BE
CORRECTED IF WE BEGIN TO RETURN TO THE EARTH AND HER TEACHING IN ANY GOOD WAY
POSSIBLE.

MODERN RELIGION DOES NOT FOCUS MUCH ATTENTION ON THESE IMPORTANT ISSUES. THIS IS
SAD AND SOMEWHAT IRRESPONSIBLE DUE TO THE FACT THAT WITHOUT OUR EARTH, NO
RELIGION WOULD EXIST BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE NO HUMANS TO INVENT GOD OR RELIGION
AND TO BE BLUNT, AS AN ARTIST I WOULD BE UPSET IF SOMEONE WAS DESTROYING MY WORK SO
WHY WOULD A GOD, ANY GOD, NOT BE UPSET WITH HIS OR HER BELIEVERS DESTROYING THE
WORKS OF THEIR CREATOR? THEREFORE, GLOBAL WARMING AND OZONE DEPLETION ARE
DIFFICULT FOR SOME OF THEIR FOLLOWERS TO COMPREHEND. SIMPLY PUT, NO LEADERS TELL
THEM NATURE IS IMPORTANT SO THEY DON'T BELIEVE IT IS. AS A RESULT THEY BECOME SO
DISCONNECTED FROM THE NATURAL WORLD AND THE IMPACT OUR GLOBAL DISCONNECTION
CREATES THAT THEY PROBABLY DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHY THEY FEEL THE WAY THEY DO OR ACT
THE WAY THEY DO WHEN FACED WITH THE "TREE HUGGERS" MENTALITY OF BECOMING LESS OF
A CONSUMER AND MORE OF A PROTECTOR OF THE EARTH'S FRAGILE ENVIRONMENT,

PERHAPS AS MORE AND MORE HARDSHIPS BEFALL THE HUMAN RACE, SOME OF THESE SAME
ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO ASK QUESTIONS TOWARD THEIR GOD AS
WELL AS WORLD GOVERNMENTS AND SUPPORTING SCIENTISTS, QUESTIONS THAT CREATE
FERTILE GROUND FOR POSITIVE GROWTH, GLOBALLY. AS THEY FIND ANSWERS, OTHERS ARE
STARTING TO LISTEN AND CHANGING THE WAY THEY THINK AND LIVE. THERE IS NO DENYING
THAT THE SEED OF RESPECTING THE EARTH MOTHER WAS PLANTED LONG AGO AND IT IS NOW
WAKING UP. LOOK AROUND. MORE AND MORE ARE RESISTING "MAIN STREAM SOCIETY" BY
QUESTIONING AUTHORITY. WE ARE FINDING WAYS OF LIVING THAT OFFER MUCH MORE
HEALTHY CHOICES ON MANY, MANY LEVELS.

THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU

I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS THOUGHT.
ASK YOURSELF IF YOUR WORLD IS WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE. ARE YOU HAPPY LIVING THE WAY
YOU DO? ARE YOU REALLY HAPPY?

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? WHY BE A TAKER WHEN YOU CAN BE A GIVER? AFTER ALL, YOU GET
FROM YOUR CUP WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT. A PERSON CAN HAVE WHAT EVER THEY CAN TAKE
BUT THEY CAN ONLY KEEP WHAT THEY CAN HOLD IN THE PALM OF THEIR EMPTY HAND.