MUST-READ OF THE DAY FROM GARY SNYDER IN Creative Systems Thinking: Any paradigm for a truly healthy culture, Gary Snyder argues, must begin with surmounting narrow personal identity and finding a commitment to place. Characteristically, he finds a way of remaking the now tired concept of sense of place into something fresh and vital. The rural model of place, he emphasizes, is no longer the only model for the healing of our culture. Lately Ive been noticing how many more people who tend toward counterculture thinking are turning up at readings and book signings in the cities and the suburbs, he says. Theyre everywhere. What I emphasize more and more is that a bioregional consciousness is equally powerful in a city or in the suburbs. Just as a watershed flows through each of these places, it also includes them. SOURCE: The Shambhala Sun in shambhalasun/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2071&Itemid=244
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:17:03 +0000
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