Gift Horses

If we want to improve our shared climates, and our interior, more guardedly intimate and vulnerable, climates, then we best cooperatively manage our nutritional/toxic landscapes. Annual planning by individuals and families seldom hopes to regenerate ecosystemic climate health, but can realistically engage in discernment of healthy landscapes, interior and exterior. Combined and shared within a healthy democratic culture, our cumulative ego/ecotherapeutic intent, planning, implementation, evaluation are our best cycle of hope and positive multiculturing faith toward global climate health, and not so much internal/external pathology. To fully embrace a gift, especially those inherited from our Elders and perhaps still accessible for our children and their children, is to invite our climates and landscapes as sacred ecological grace and also to accept responsibility for gifts uses, maintenance and repair, eventual repurpose, recycling any degenerative waste produced as a questionable gift for Earth's next generation of interdependent species, and the next... for how many generations? Gifts, like sacraments, bring gratitude for changing new authorities over resources, nutritional flow of opportunities but with a potential risk of responsibility for contributing to our children's toxic waste stream. A principle of Permaculture Design endorses planning from broader spacetime pattern of spring through winter climates and back to spring again patterns first, then look more closely deeply in to more specific landscape networking details of regenerative authorities inherited from Elders and degenerative responsibilities, healthy production flows and unhealthy waste streams left to and for fragile future new-growth regenerators and vulnerable degenerators. Which is why, contrary to what my grandfather advised, I am learning to look even gifted horses in their mouths to count the landscape costs and to appreciate climate details of healthy horsepowered teeth, devouring and recreating sacred ecosystems, regenerative and decomposing change.