If you've ever held a guitar in front of you, facing you, and sung at the body of it, you might have noticed that the strings vibrated with whatever note you sang at it, even though your fingers weren't plucking or strumming. This phenomenon describes how I feel when I'm gardening, when I'm swimming in a river, when I'm playing music for free, when I'm writing or singing folk songs (music that we all own together), when I'm composting my humanure, when I'm riding my bicycle hundreds of miles to a concert, or when I speak up about the rights of our landbase.
I feel like I resonate with "sustainability" like a guitar body does that has a voice singing at it; there's something in me that produces sympathetic frequencies. There's some kind of invisible force that reaches out to me from the high stepping hooves of deer, from the heirloom tomato, from the rock & roll bicycle tour and makes me go: "fuck YEEEEAAAAAH! THAT'S why I'm alive! It's to swim! It's to be a singing mammal! It's to eat tomatoes! (etc)"
Obviously being a human, unlike the guitar, I have the choice to be deaf to the vibration when it comes at me - maybe because I'm feeling scared of how much weirder and weirder I'm getting the more sustainable lifestyle practices I adopt, maybe because I like steak and I don't want to go Veggie, maybe because cars are just so much faster, or whatever - but if I shut my ears and eyes and I'm a square asshole my whole life to the beauty that's shouting at me from the rocks underneath my boots, the fact still remains that they call out at me, and that I'm being a square asshole; the fact remains that I was built to resonate and to be in harmony with them.
In the end I don't personally really care if this is the Titanic and we sink tomorrow or if the ship will never sink. I don't want to get up on the bandstand of the universe and honk sour notes. I want to resonate with the rocks and animals til my death, today or 80 years from now. Why? Cause it just feels too good not to.
Gabe Dominguez excerpt from http://www.shakeyourpeace.com
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Cool!
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