Wow! What a powerful experience right out of the gate. What a great way to start learning about sustainability but to focus on the why of it instead of the how.
I had been looking for a permaculture experience since I got laid off in November. I applied, unsuccessfully, to an internship at one Permacultre Homestead in Washington. I figured I would jump off the limb instead of merely putting myself out there. Well, as they say, these things happen for a reason. I started looking closer to home in the SF bay area where I live. Common Circle was about the third course that I had looked at. All of these courses offer what I had assumed that I wanted out of a permaculture design course; hands-on learning of skillsets to help me create a sustainable lifestyle for myself and my community. The line that stuck out for me on the detail regarding the Sub/Urban Permaculture Design Course was ‘Creating Sustainable Economies and Sustainable Communities’. What a novel idea, hell radical idea…creating a local economy that sustains itself and it’s community. This is a personal goal for myself as I had spent over twenty years in sales and distribution putting primarily crap into the world. So I signed up!
The “Awakening the Dreamer/Changing the Dream Symposium” is something that I am going to try and get everyone I know to experience. Two of the most powerful and poignant messages that resonate inside me from that experience are, “There is no away”, and “What did you do, once you knew?” . It sure seems hard to do nothing once you know.
I can honestly say that I had no idea that I was going to get what I did out of that first day with Common Circle. A gentle, supportive, shaking and waking of my own subdued consciousness. Without knowing it I found the place that I needed to be. I’m not just here to learn how to create a sustainable life anymore. I’m learning to understand why this is what we need to do. I’m ready! Let’s go! Thank you!
- Ron S.
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