What Are You Building?

I have built something similar. :)

No kings or queens though, and communities, not kingdoms.

Still planning it...so I'm "building" it in my head.

The perfect little cabin in the woods.

I would grow gardens for aminals to eat, and set up natural shelters for deer, turkeys, and other critters to thrive.

Lots of mature trees. I would add a few fruit/nut trees and grape vines every year.

A creek full of fish.

Plant a few black wallnut trees for future income.

The list goes on & on but you get the idea.

Sounds beautiful. I felt peaceful just reading that.

Something like this, but on a bigger scale.

There are beautiful, neglected park areas throughout the poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee.

There are plenty of unemployed people around who can work in them.

Much of the work of restoration is very basic, involving removing brush, dead wood, and invasive species, as well as garbage.

People can get restoration grants from the Federal government to do that work, and I want to convince a lot of other people to get going on it.

I'm working out a proposal to work on a specific piece of neglected hillside over Miller Valley.

At one time it was a "Lover's Lane" style walkway, carved out of the side of the hill, and paved and buttressed with flagstones, and lit by electric lights over 12 feet tall, all along the length of the path.

Trees have fallen over it, and dead wood and brush choke the hillside.

I need to go to the historical society to search for old pictures of the path, and to find out who owns it, as well as why it has been neglected for at least 50 years.

I figure I could do a basic restoration, with minimal natural impact, and possibly new lights in six months, if I can get enough to cover rent, living expenses, and some basic tools.

If I can pull it off, others could do it, and I want to help them and encourage them to try.

It was a program Obama set up, which seems to have been underutilized. (It also seems like money that should have been revitalizing urban neighborhoods was redirected into welfare and other programs.)

It is a project for the next six months or so, but I'm making other plans for the longer term.

If the project falls through, I need to be ready to go.

It could fall through.

I dread the confrontation with the park service.

I've had a lot of experience in the past with park extremists of every sort - the worst being from the Federal government.

The worst want mankind to take his hands off nature.

My bitter enemies.

I want human hands all over nature.

Every corner of the planet where any improvement can be made - people ought to be doing it.

Nature dies without man.

Most likely building me you everything else...a monument to truth...

A legacy for after I am done for troubled teens, otherwise known as punks, which i was one at one time. I was lucky to come out the other side and would like to play the catcher in the rye role gnomesaying?

Hold fast, like an anchor in the storm...


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That is awesome! I hope that you get the funding you need.

I have to disagree with your last sentence though. Nature would do fine without man, it is man who dies without nature.

There are some who say we are all doing this on some level. Do you agree with that?

Building a better future for others, that is wonderful. Well done, sir.

It's A Secret.

I building a sweet lego fort with my kids.....no bad guys getin' into this bitch.

There are many who will make that choice, I think. I hope you all find it a grand adventure!

Hey Operator!

But You know with a single Thought you can do painstaking exploration of every aspect of each of the 12,960,000 infinities between any surface of spacetime and Source at its T-boundary picturing creation.

From The T-boundary that segregates the knowable from the unknowable range of Source.

So anything from nothing.

A lego fort, or a fort surrounded by legos? I've heard of many a mom and dad taken down by a well-placed lego.

Man certainly dies without nature, but nature can't do well without men.

I'm a traditionalist. Man was created to tend the garden.

The fallen world can't return to the garden, but it is ever more in need of tending.

Nature is to be subdued - a more extreme version of cultivation.

Plants need birdsong.

As Jesus said: "How much more important are you than a bird."

Plants need more than song from humans.

I want to be put in the ground directly next to a tree to help it grow as I decay. I have nothing after this.

A Shelf in my garage

I'm talkin Big Blocks.....monster sized legos... we have a 5 ft. high 3 layer thick fort/castle and It don't matter...Hulk, nor stuffed monkey nor Doc McStuffins is gonna break into this bitch without some serious bloodshed.

And how would you subdue nature?

It took me a minute(well, several), but then I could picture it and I remembered that I've seen what you are describing.

Cool.

I'm building trust.

Earth, is the great recycler, and I understand the desire to have the body somehow give back to the planet that supports our lives.

I have heard others say this, that they don't desire to somehow go on after death of the body. Some are simply tired, others have known too much pain, and for some it is simply their choice and truth.

You feel as if you're coming from a place of pain. I hope I am wrong, but if so, I am sorry.

Wonder

With whom?