Friday, July 25, 2008
My first video, be nice.
Here is our baby! Feel free to show any and all, just credit us: Abbie, Gabriela, and I. Also I would highly recommend all of the other Environmentalism in Early America class videos, from 2005 and 2008, located at: http://class.guilford.edu/psci/kdell/documentaries.htm
Today is the day.
I have been nerving up to do this for six months or so by now, but I am ready. I really want to become a "real" blogger, one where I write about real things- things that matter- rather than say my boring social life. I am reading, and thinking, excessively about FOOD. It is getting entirly out of hand, and so before i work myslef into an eating disorder, I want to do something constructive with this knowlege, and concern.
My last semester in school, I worked on a documentary about organic food in Greensboro, NC, where our school is. At least, thats what we tried to illustrate. It turned out to be more complicated than we thought it would be... I will post the video before long so the world can see it.
In two weeks, I am moving away from home to my first apartment with my lovely boyfriend. We are moving to Carrboro, NC, which is an awesome city and will be great. One of the nicest parts is Weaver Street Market, a co-op organic market right nearby. This means that I will have an easy, not outrageously expensive supply of healthy food, environmentally conscious household products, and will be supporting alternative business models. to say i am happy about this is an understatement! I hope to drastically increase my health by eating fresh, safe, nutritious food. on the other hand, I do not have a job, nor will I for a while.
So my experiment is born. I want to spend the next year of my life learning how to live sustainable. I don't just mean being environmentally sensitive, or by recycling, though obviously those are both important parts of the puzzle. What I really want is to find the intersection of healing the world while sustaining myself. Both physically and spiritually, I feel stuck but I feel there is a breakthrough waiting behind all this. I want ( and I will get around to dealing with so many "i wants" at a later date, let's not get ahead of ourselves) to live my values. I need to ground myself in who I am and bring my life into balance. My integrity is at stake. Who am I to tell anyone else to do as I say, not as I do? I have no excuse large enough to allow this to get worse. Being disabled does not mean I don't have to care, In fact I think i need to care rather a great deal more about the health of my environment and consciousness. I am committing myself to actually be the change I want to see in the world. This quote of Gandhi's was the motto of Guilford, and has really become part of me, and however far I go from that wonderful, frustrating, undefinable place, this idea will never leave me.
I don't know exactly what i want this year to look like. some things i want to see happen include: eating as much local, organic, and seasonable food as I possibly can, spending money in line with my resources and needs, and reducing my impact on this poor old world. I will figure thing out later. right now i feel like a burden has been lifted simply by getting this first post out. And so, I will try to write something, anything everyday as I begin this journey.
and on that hippie dippie note, I am going to go pack for a while, and be further horrified at how much crap I have. Yay...
My last semester in school, I worked on a documentary about organic food in Greensboro, NC, where our school is. At least, thats what we tried to illustrate. It turned out to be more complicated than we thought it would be... I will post the video before long so the world can see it.
In two weeks, I am moving away from home to my first apartment with my lovely boyfriend. We are moving to Carrboro, NC, which is an awesome city and will be great. One of the nicest parts is Weaver Street Market, a co-op organic market right nearby. This means that I will have an easy, not outrageously expensive supply of healthy food, environmentally conscious household products, and will be supporting alternative business models. to say i am happy about this is an understatement! I hope to drastically increase my health by eating fresh, safe, nutritious food. on the other hand, I do not have a job, nor will I for a while.
So my experiment is born. I want to spend the next year of my life learning how to live sustainable. I don't just mean being environmentally sensitive, or by recycling, though obviously those are both important parts of the puzzle. What I really want is to find the intersection of healing the world while sustaining myself. Both physically and spiritually, I feel stuck but I feel there is a breakthrough waiting behind all this. I want ( and I will get around to dealing with so many "i wants" at a later date, let's not get ahead of ourselves) to live my values. I need to ground myself in who I am and bring my life into balance. My integrity is at stake. Who am I to tell anyone else to do as I say, not as I do? I have no excuse large enough to allow this to get worse. Being disabled does not mean I don't have to care, In fact I think i need to care rather a great deal more about the health of my environment and consciousness. I am committing myself to actually be the change I want to see in the world. This quote of Gandhi's was the motto of Guilford, and has really become part of me, and however far I go from that wonderful, frustrating, undefinable place, this idea will never leave me.
I don't know exactly what i want this year to look like. some things i want to see happen include: eating as much local, organic, and seasonable food as I possibly can, spending money in line with my resources and needs, and reducing my impact on this poor old world. I will figure thing out later. right now i feel like a burden has been lifted simply by getting this first post out. And so, I will try to write something, anything everyday as I begin this journey.
and on that hippie dippie note, I am going to go pack for a while, and be further horrified at how much crap I have. Yay...
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