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Permaculture Diary: 4th January 2008

Copyright © Beverley Paine

Sally Lever's Fruitful ezine asks the question: "How do we come up with a plan for our business or our personal life that is sustainable?" Although not something my mind wants to be occupied with at the moment, it's a question that lurks in the back of my mind all the time. I love Sally's answer: "The good news is that there is an easy solution. Sustainability in every aspect of our lives is about simplifying."

This is something I fervently believe in... It's something that I need to remember when I'm feeling overwhelmed with choices, or need to make decisions. Permacutlure can seem incredibly complex. There are so many factors to consider, including potential consequences. I try to hit the 'pause button' on most of my decisions, putting time between decision and action, just in case something surfaces that would modify the decision. It's not always possible, and has resulted in LOTS of half finished projects...

Striving for simplicity is a great guide for making decisions and wading through choices.

Wisdoms from Sally's ezine:

• Daily decluttering is an essential step towards simplification. I need to declutter the way my mind works! Especially in relation to my extensive web related activities...
• Mark Boyle's realisation that he didn't own his possession, that they actually owned him, is slowly beginning to register in my head too. Yesterday I noticed that I'm okay if I lose all the information I've ferreted away on my hard-drive. I'm letting go of my emotional attachment to it. It would be a pain, that's for sure, but I wouldn't lose sleep. This could be because I have taken steps to protect the information I really need, and spent an afternoon last week going through folders and deleting files I haven't ever used. In the past I've worried that I might accidentally delete something important. Now I realise nothing is that important! His article in Fruitful is well worth reading: full of permaculture good sense!

Grace sent me an article to read by Andrew OHagen, Unicef's Ambasador for Literature, and I found this lovely quote:

"It is not policy or tradition but the everyday work of the imagination that can make us see both the rarity and the responsibility of being truly alive."

The rest of his article was a good read, a timely reminder of why I am a writer in the first place. I tend to take my imagination for granted and what's worse, expect everyone else to have the same imaginative ability. I forget that people think in very different ways to each other. Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and learning styles often remind me that one's dominant style often dictates how the imagination works, and in what field.

Well, I finished formatting the last booklet. Now all we have to do is read through a printed copy to do a final check for errors before sending them off to the author for approval to print.

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