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“I’m broadcasting this afternoon from what’s been called The Pittsburgh Permaculture Project — part of Intuitive Garden and the Intuitive Food Forest Network.
We’ve been working here, it must be more like six years now. There are such beautiful things that have happened in this space.
There are projectlets (heehee, projectlets) that we’ve completed; and there are projectlets that we have not completed, that may still perhaps be completed!
It’s always a continuing question. What’s going to be the best thing for the now?
What’s going to be the place for us to put our focus, so that all the living beings in our ecosystem can experience best benefit in continuing collaborative relationship in that ecosystem?
The first questions we always ask ourselves as part of projects and platforms in the Intuitive Community Media Network... include questions about the words we use.
The word ‘permaculture’ is a tricky one because it means so many really important things, it means so many nourishing and regenerative things, to so many people. It’s not to be discarded lightly.
And... we know that there are things going on in our communities that we need to highlight and learn about, and that we need to listen for.
A lot of that has to do with what words we use...
...how those words are used...
...how those words came into use...
...and what are the meanings of those words for all of the living beings in the ecosystem?
Not just the ones who are most visible or who have most access or can be heard most easily, but also the ones that we really have to listen closely for.
And the ones that we need to co-facilitate in having more access and more voice.
I want to say voicefulness — to go with how often we use the word choicefulness.
…So that we can be embodied in experiencing the fullness and the wholeness of the collective body of that collective ecosystem.
When we listen very closely, we can start to learn a lot about those who went before us.
We can talk about this in terms of our ancestors, which sometimes is framed in a very limited way and can sometimes be misleading.
We want to honor those who went before, who are part of our family and community lineages, yes, but also crucially part of the lineages of the land that we are tending and growing with in relationship.
The word permaculture is a more recent kind of word that often seems to say that something is new when actually it isn’t new.
There are lineages of the land and peoples who have lived most closely to the land... that know things that go beyond what we know of as ‘permaculture’... but often are credited and attributed to permaculture. Permaculture recent history, permaculture mindsets.
There’s something else there that we really must listen for in order to be in wholeness.
And when we have this particular designation, the Pittsburgh Permaculture Project, what is it that name means to us?
Do we want to continue using that name?
Maybe. Maybe not.
What are going to be the best steps for all the living beings in the ecosystem to be present in wholeness… to be recognized, honored, and cared for?
We have many conversations just like this one all across the Intuitive Community Media Network, where words and language and etymology... communications in relational integrity... are the first most important thing that we always are doing.
And even when we’re not totally sure how we feel about particular words we’re using, we can make frontmost the conversations about what words mean to different people.
What is conveyed by different words being used in different ways at different times?
...In different contexts?
We learn so much about what language is.
Language itself, verbal and nonverbal, is inherent to the vital life force energy that is in us and between us as living beings.
That is in the land and with all the creatures of the land, including humans.
Too often we are separated from one another in truly unfortunate ways. That’s the basis of violence that is experienced by so many.
If we can bridge with language and with our choicefulnesses...
...and use our voicefulnesses in the very best of ways...
...we have solutions we never previously could imagine.
We can ease one another’s way.
That’s why we’re growing gardens together.
And it is the main subject of my and our tremendous gratitude for these abundant blessings.”
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