Musings on Gift, Permaculture, Work

I just read an enlightening article on Gift Economy from a woman in France. Her take on the whole idea is fresh and helpful. Check it out by clicking below and then put in Gift Economy.
http://www.wisemandarine.com/ Opps, Mandarine wrote that she is a he. My bad.

A poet friend of mine and her husband bought and live at an orchard in western Colorado. She speaks of the struggle to get the crop that society requires. From a freeze of blossoms that did not stop the fruit, their apricots are now deemed seconds. I sent her this poem in response.

Naming Ceremony For

Survivors

i rename those miraculous

persistent wonders i call

them love bundles or

sweet dreams or

mama's delight

maybe wine makers

or apricot of my eye

or cherry's cherry

a chance to listen

to these other voices

of our world, listen

as in permaculture

as in let's make a

date and go out

under the stars and

talk all night as in

Meister Eckart's

conclusion that we

are all birthers of god.

Even in the fruit we eat, there is judgement, a requirement for a perfection that is an illusion and a missing of the real beauty of life. A gift economy could change all that. Gratitude, giving and receiving might take some of that out of the equation.

Sweet gift giving to you this gorgeous Sunday.
JJ