I think this concept is really important and I'm thankful for all of your essays.

Resilience for introverts? I don't see myself doing any community organizing. Especially here in Texas where I don't fit it. But there are neighbors and close friends who are like minded in this regard. Most of us have teenage children, so we are busy with them right now. We care, but don't know where to begin. Also, we are doing things individually, but not collectively.

Some of it might be a matter of finding out what you can do first. Although I preach a lot about the fact that this cannot be incremental, maybe we find the thing we can do and have the courage to do . . . start there. But then we need to accelerate the hell out of it!

Rambling now . . . .

There are some folks at DK I would like to invite. Surprised they are not here already.

I have been a farmer for 30 years, built my own house, have critters like chickens and so on. So I might be able to help folks out with some odd ball ideas from growing stuff in really small places and such.

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Is there a way to post documents here. Perhaps PDFs?

Before your writings I'd never heard of "resilience" altho it is an exact description of my core being

I'll be 56 in June and remain forever thankful to my Dad who was born and raised in East Oakland, CA and my wonderful Granny Smith who was a WWII widow and single mom. As a immigrant farmer's daughter she planted and maintained a Victory Garden on two lots and produced tons and tons of fresh food within a neighborhood that is historically known as a "food desert." No grocery chain has or will build/invest in urban neighborhoods like that with crime rates so high. But as a young dad, and altho quite academic, he remained true to his roots so thankfully I grew up with magazines like Rodale's Organic Gardening and Black Panther's Ramparts.

And thank you for your explanation on "sustainability." Like many things during the 90s, it was frustrating to see a scientifically legitimate term get hijacked by the pursuit of entrepreneur capitalism. The environmental hope of the Rio Summit burgeoned instead into a whole new political economy of NGOs parading as middlemen to Earth's answer to global warming. As a former/longtime Cooperative Extension Master Gardener I realized what joke "sustainability" had become, comfortably cloaked as an economy's "new bottom line" however extractive/detrimental the industry. Whenever I use it now, I make sure to clarify it's definition, passively educating while at it. This new terminology really helps in explaining by example ecology's interrelationships, thank you and LET'S DO THIS!

community and working together for the good of all.

The whole survivalist movement was a turn-off to me because it seemed to reinforce the individualist bunker mentality.

I have some old-fashioned skills that might be helpful. For example I have cooked chicken from scratch, starting where the axe meets the neck of the chicken!

I still have my hand-cranked flour grinder. The only possession I have left from my days living at mountain commune. But it's been a long time since I actually ground wheat berries to make flour. Used cost me 9 cents to make a loaf of 100% organic whole wheat bread!

Can also chop wood and build a fire and manage it to cook or bake on a wood cook stove. And I know how to bank a fire in wood heating stove so that it last thru a long winter night.

Hey Gerrit, we need to preserve some of these skills!!

Don't know if Johnny has the group feature up and running. I seem to remember some talk about that at one point. But even if the group feature isn't available yet, we could still set up a time and a banner so that we feel more like a group.

needed to get to the point to have your roof over your head and feed yourself of a little piece of land. And I know that whatever you do, you have to learn by doing and failing and getting up again and doing it again and getting over your last failure and on and on and on ...

got the message that finally my son found a landlord who is willing to rent out a part of his house to him, separate unit within. That would mean I could visit him without having to shell out hundreds and hundreds of dollars for hotel. (Finger crossed, tomorrow he will sign the lease). The lot has a little greenhouse and he can use it. So, there is a start. At least it seems I can sleep a little bit better with less worries. He can get out of sleeping in his truck in 9 days. I am so superstitious that talking about it would mean it could still end up to not happen. Sigh. Of course, we can make the rent only with two people, so it's sharing either with "Mom" or "the girlfriend". That makes half the rent for him and he can afford that from his salary.

That's an interestiing subject too: Why do people tend to believe in "signs" and other superstitious stuff. It's a specific kind of mind manipulation going on, when that happens. But where does it come from?

Cross your fingers it will come through. Living out of a truck, while being a full-time working guy, is a major destructive force on your psyche. Let's say he had resilience to live in his truck to survive. Oh boy, that and the primaries got me really down.

I agree with Bisbonian, we are past the tipping point, adaptation is needed to keep life going for as long as possible.

group member, if that's acceptable--IOW, more reading and cheering on, than writing--since I'm working on a blogging project of my own, and still traveling quite a bit, as well.

BTW, this tragic story came down on my cell phone last night. Recall that there were a record number of deaths in India, last year.

Heat wave kills more than 160 in southern , eastern India

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks away.
Most of the heat-wave victims were laborers and farmers in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, though temperatures elsewhere in India have also hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit). . . .

Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks away. Most of the heat-wave victims were laborers and farmers in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, though temperatures elsewhere in India have also hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit).

Schools were closed last week in Orissa until at least April 26. Officials in Andhra Pradesh were giving out free water and buttermilk to help people stay hydrated. And everywhere, people have been urged to stay indoors during the hottest hours of the day.

Y.K. Reddy, a state meteorological official, said the temperatures were about 4-5 degrees Celsius (8-10 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than normal for April. "Normally such high temperatures are recorded in the month of May," he said. . . .

Making matters worse, India is grappling with severe water shortages and drought affecting more than 300 million people — a quarter of the country's population. Thousands of distressed farmers have committed suicide, tens of thousands of farm animals have died, and crops have perished, with rivers, lakes and ponds drying up and groundwater tables sinking.

Scrambling to deal with the crisis, officials have sent tankers of water to parched farming communities in Maharashtra, banning people from drilling deep wells and ordering farmers to shift away from growing water-guzzling sugarcane crops.
The heat wave in India coincides with record-high temperatures across the globe. On Tuesday, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said March's average global temperature of 12.7 degrees Celsius (54.9 Fahrenheit) was not only the hottest March, but continues a record 11-month streak that started last May.

For southern India, this is the second consecutive year marred by a deadly heat wave. Last year, around 2,500 people died in scorching temperatures before the monsoon rains began in the Indian subcontinent in early June.

Very much look forward to reading your posts.

Have a good one!

Mollie
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Can we also get our membership list for c99% above 1600 people? The growth of this place seems to have slowed down a bit.

and later CoEvolution Quarterly magazine and Whole Earth Review, which I did my part in supporting with a couple thousand dollars back before I fell off the financial roller-coaster.
http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php
(Too bad they — we — are now reduced to working through the kind of evil, one-plutocrat-at-the-top corporate monopolies we of that time always eschewed, in this case Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.)

Although Stewart Brand and successors had different words for it rather than “resilience,” that whole community would have “grokked” exactly what Gerrit is getting at here.