The Human Opportunity-- to celebrate and embrace The Living, to create a vital, living community, to produce for oneself the needs of life, including culture, creativity, organic community-embraced celebration, peace, a pace and design based on maximizing the local, the eco-logical, the self- and nature-produced, the non-polluted, not chemically-saturated, non-globally-transported, deeply local, warmed by the sun and burning forest-acquired on-"property" wood, growing grains and vegetables and orchards and melons and berries and tapping maple sap and building naturally-well-insulated homes of material found on-property... most notably, mud (as cob, the cottage-style equivalent of adobe building in the southeast) and stones and intentionally grown and harvested straw-bales... solar hot water (in warm months at least), solar and wind energy-capture on-property, not centralized, the de-centralizing and re-community-building Transition.

Glory in Life. Replace death-inflicting, death-oriented culture... despite its alluring bright loudness and many jolts of true beauty throughout, but if inflicting death on mass scale, ignoring destructiveness of our mass creature Homo Colossus takeover method of overshooting the planet's limits instead of celebrating its bounty with respect and overawed (appropriately) care.

Then we'll be there.

Transition Time is upon us... Enjoy inJoy.

Howl!

-ZMD