ESD and Poems Green Survival
How can I tell you what it is to be a Forest Defender in the woods, on the run. To be the sound of the crickets, to fly like the wind, alive in Nature ? Seek out wisdom in simple stones and fragile herbs, and in the cries of wild birds. Listen to the whisperings of the wind and the roar of water…if you would discover Magic.
For it is here that the old secrets are forever preserved … Awaiting… wise use.
As The Dirt Settles Into Your Clothes And Skin:
As Your Hair Tangles And Collects Thorns
And Seeds; As Your Body Eases Into
The Tranquility And Peace Of The Bubbling
Creek…. The Wind In The Trees;
The Stars Shine Back Into Your Clearing
Eyes And… The Silliness Of ,
City Ways
Dissolves Away - As If …It Never Could Have Been.
Connections With The Wild Seep In
And Grow Deep Within Your Soul. And
You Are Free, Feral and Alive.
You Can Never Be Alone Again For…
We Are One: Wood Nymphs and Faery
Pranksters; Butterflies, Sparrows
Mushrooms…Earth Is Alive-Resisting - And Teaching..
We Are Remembering Each Other.
Listen And Pray For The Elves To Enter.
Welcome A New Day - A New Way Of Old.
For All… Blessings: To * Be!
An E c o-S o c i a l D e f e n c e - E S D
An ancient Raven with a broken beak got me lost in the woods one day.
It wanted to scare me into listening. It squawked:
"Nobody thinks about the creatures dying off forever. You - so called - Radicals -
Seekers of the Root - you can’t figure out how or what to fight. Why don’t you spread your wings and fly out of Denial toward a little more Paranoia. You can’t just wish the world to be nice. Vague wishes often hurt: a nice world for lightning bolts or anaerobic bacteria is different than one for mammals and mushrooms. Humans were supposed to divine how the world works not reduce it to rubble trying to figure out their egos. What kind of world do you want, how will you get there? Why don’t you ever explain what your strategy is, or hopes to accomplish?
Since you ignore the animals and life that beg you now to fight like crazy - while there’s still a shred of use for sacrific… think up something that’s a little more than symbolic art.
Try this: Eco-social Defense. Decide, either by lottery or by virtue of eco-need and practicalities, a couple counties that make sense to occupy, settle and apply whatever it is you believe in. Publicize your plan and the target sanctuaries - places where people should relocate to. Raise money: bake sales, panhandling, hard work, or spin some chump change out of a fat cat like Soros or Ted Turner or Woody (if he gets fatter). Set up land trusts for low-impact eco-communities. Start building and planting trees, learning and teaching simple - living skills, and fighting (nicely) to defend the ecology of your sanctuary.
When enough people get there you take over all political offices and institute your radical ‘bright’ ideas. Then work on neighboring counties. I know it’s hard to abandon some struggles and places… but would you rather lose everywhere or win for sure in a few places? There are a dozen important counties in the West that would each require only five to twenty thousand new voters in order to dominate their politics. The State may try to stop you, or circumvent the Will of the People, but you’ll have thousands of direct action die-hards to enforce your own law.
That Raven still scares me. I can’t stop thinking about ESD or coming up with something that makes sense - a way to live in this world that’s outside denial and selfishness. The ESD plan makes sense, because it is already happening on its own (Humboldt,
Eugene , etc.). Many of the areas the Raven suggests we take over are likely to be swamped with refugees if the country slides much further into chaos and martial law. Without this plan, the ecology of these endangered regions is seriously threatened.
…A strange bird, but I kind of liked him, shabby and perfidious as it was…
Who’s paranoid?
"ESD "Squawk!: "Eco-social Defense , "Caw, Caw"
Refugees
Gods! So many refugees from the floods and nowhere to go, with violence in the cities. Those summers of ‘06 and ’07 the roads were clogged with bewildered folks. Some tried to get up into the hills, but most couldn’t make it. The rivers were running wild and high.
Our story was a common one, of those who thought they were ready. It’s hard to really prepare when you’ve no idea what to expect. It helps to keep repeating: food and shelter, food and shelter…
We set about to live deep into the forest. Alina and Sunshine knew much about gardening, wild foods, and food preservation. Fanghorn was only twelve, yet quite proficient at stalking with his bow. Ermine and Peak were young pros at security, planning and recons… We practiced making jewelry and talismans from the unique objects we found in our wanderings.
We found a nice summer campsite on a lush little stream. We hunted, grew hemp, and built natural material yurts. We often traveled to the Fairs and Gatherings selling or trading our homemade jewelry and raingear. People liked our pamphlets on the Elven Predictions and the Way of the Goddess. Sometimes we talked to people about how the Rednecks and Elves could live together and create a better world.
A New Magic shall arise amid the rubble of a dying world or perhaps not dying but only the passing of the world as we knew it.
I cannot see all who travel the Path nor what trials they must suffer, for a Disturbance - an unbalanced Power - seeks good but is untested.
I know this for it will be a part of me, coming from my life or out from my life’s changing. It will grasp and cling, yet with love and belief - the Savior will shine - the Portal will dim. - Jarrel - Witch of Scarlet Glenn
***** TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: PAGES 5 – 8
BOOK I: ****** WHEN WORLDS MEET
CHAPTER I: ELVES, HEALERS AND ECO-COMMANDOS: PAGES 9 - 12
CHAPTER II: NETWORKS OF LIGHT: PAGES 13 - 68
CHAPTER III: TO BE CHOSEN: PAGES 69 - 84
CHAPTER IV: A CHALLENGE OF SHADOWS: PAGES 85 - 103
CHAPTER V: A TEST OF WILLS: PAGES 104 - 113
BOOK TWO: ***** ALLIANCES OF LOVE AND NEED
CHAPTER VI: LOVE AND BETRAYAL: PAGES 114 - 133
CHAPTER VII: DEATH’S OWN SHADOW: PAGES 135 - 198
CHAPTER VII:
Of FESTIVALS IN THE SUN, VOTES AND BATTLES FOUGHT: PAGES 198 – 223
BOOK THREE: ***** WHEN GODS WALK ON EARTH
CHAPTER IX: CLIMAX OF LIFE; THE HOUR OF THE TWO: PAGES 224 – 258
CHAPTER X: THE TEST OF THE LAST WISH:
THE MANY
CHOSEN : PAGES 259 - 304
CHAPTER XI: WELCOME ARMAGEDDON: PAGES 305 – 323
BOOK IV: ****** FOR LOVE OF
A PLACE
CHAPTER XII: BEYOND THE RAPTURE: PAGES 324 - 329
CHAPTER XIII: IN HONOR OF THE CYCLES: PAGES 330 - 343
APPENDIX (30,000 words): PAGES 345 -396
