daibhaid@summerlands.com
Re: Da' boy makes some sense
daibh
daibhaid@summerlands.com
Wed Jul 26 15:00:58 2000
Searles wrote,*br*: In former times, before the Industrial Revolution and when *br*: people lived closer to the earth, almost everyone had a *br*: stronger connection to Nature than many of us have today. *br*: It's only natural to expect that the learned in an agrarian *br*: society would have made the attempt to understand and *br*: observe the ways of Nature.  This seems particularly true *br*: when one observes that trees/wood lore were used as a basis *br*: for forming an alphabet (the Ogham) and concepts in *br*: language. This reverence for Nature also seems to be at the *br*: root of the idea of the sacred tree or bile which many Irish *br*: Celtic tribes embraced. *br*(snippers)*p*A beautiful piece of info that is going into the cyber journal. :^) *p*FWIW I advocate being eco-friendly, living off the grid is our goal of goals, however, at the same time we understand to live completely off the grid is not completely obtainable unless we use such as cell phones and such. But we are getting there. However, at the same time we are not walling ourselves away from the world, creating a cloister in which we will live and not become one with the rest of the social order. We are just planning to do so on a reduced scale. :^)*p*Idir sin is tráthas mo chairde!*p*Daibhí
Re: Da' boy makes some sense
Searles
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Wed Jul 26 08:32:42 2000