Our Hands

Our hands have become unemployed. technology has slowly made life easy, so that are hands have little more to do then operate machines, which in turn do the work. I have always loved the idea of hands, that our hands reflect our lives.  Grandmothers hands wrinkled, worn, strong, scarred. Hands that could completely take care of all of ones needs.
"Many hands make light work": but we don't need many hands anymore, we hardly need our own...

I love when my hands have will no longer come clean, " I'll just have to wait for the skin to come off"- dumpster diving, filtering vegetable oil for my car, dirt under my nails from gardening. callouses from work that would make panty hose run.

I like using my hands and knowing that they can take care of me.

Finally, there is purpose.

I started this blog over four years ago, and I had no idea really what I wanted to provide here. It was a feeling, without content. Since then Life has taken me and a vivid, wild and intimate adventure. Now, I have arrived clear about my vocation, passion, self-expression and intention.
 I have Become a Farmer, an Ecologist, An Educator and A Healer.

As this reality presented its self , I was called out for hiding out "Pickin' Weeds"  to which I fire built in my belly, that I had not felt since I was in the depth of studies of global issues. 
Then My Heart Roared:

 I go to bed late. I wake up early.

I drive from Long Beach to San Juan Capistrano. I sweat like a beast, I'm burnt up by night. I forgo a decent paycheck and benefits. I insist.

Why? Because I believe.

I believe that there are enough people talking about it and not enough doing something about it.

I know I don't need to tell you about peak oil, pollinator eradication, soil depletion, waste cumulation, obesity, cancer, diminishing communities, or nature deficit disorder.

...

You know.

And I choose to grow. I choose to farm. I choose to educate. I choose to stand for a future that hasn't panned out yet.
Because I believe,

This is one of the answers. That will make the biggest impacts.

That when the shift occurs I can say, I did my best.

 

 

This is one of the most beautiful videos I have ever seen that I feel echoed by take a moment to enjoy and be inspired: