Eden M. B. Roman
@cosmiclatte137
JOYmonger
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Eden M. B. Roman
The reason you might be having trouble with your practice in the long run—if you were capable of building a practice in the short run—is nearly always because you are afraid. The fear, the resistance, is very insidious. It doesn’t leave a lot of fingerprints, but the person who manages to make a movie short that blows everyone away but can’t raise
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unicorn magic and
Google Books
books.google.comregenerative cities mood board
note from J. Baldwin’s book “BuckyWorks: Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today”:
Megastructures ::: the idea of a one-building town. Gave examples of many “towns” in Alaska that consist of “a single, funky building that simultaneously serves as a gas station, motel, restaurant, general store, bar, repair garage, bait shop, public telephone, school bus stop, post office, kennel, and quarters for the folks running the show. These agglomerations all look about the same for good reason: Tough conditions and expensive supplies cause people to think clearly, if not elegantly. They intuitively put everything under one roof over a small plot of land. Total loss in the event of a fire is the only serious disadvantage.”
The Gatekeeper is important because they provide the friction. The Gatekeeper is not truly exclusionary, rather they introduce labor to access the culture, they introduce a rite of passage, of initiation. The gatekeeper creates the fence which the enthusiast happily hops and stops the dilettante.
Ruby Justice Thelot • In Praise of Gatekeeping
Viewed one-dimensionally, the other concept that requires clarification is gate-keeping. Only seen to be a fence, its hinge is forgotten. A gate is the passage between interior and exterior, from one space to another, private to public, mine to another's. It is both about keeping out and allowing in. The current conception of “gate-keeping” is excl... See more
Ruby Justice Thelot • In Praise of Gatekeeping
Abundance
amazon.com
weaver and
from Charles Marohn of Strong Towns:
“Abundance is a powerful idea. But what kind of abundance? And who decides?
Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s new book, Abundance, is a thoughtful, energetic call to reform the systems holding us back. Housing, infrastructure, clean energy -- it’s all stuck -- and the book rightly asks: why can’t we build?
I agree with much of the diagnosis. But I’ve seen this movie before. From The Lexus and the Olive Tree to JC Nichols’ “Planning for Permanence,” the belief that smart people can fix complex systems from the top down has a long, seductive history and a deeply fragile legacy.
The Strong Towns approach offers something different. Not bigger reform from above, but a culture of bottom-up action. A belief that better decisions come from local feedback, iteration, and care, not from confidence in the machine.
This isn’t about “local control” as a sacred principle. It’s about local capacity: the ability for communities to solve problems at the scale of lived experience. We’re not anti-state or anti-policy. We’re anti-fragility. A system that only works when the “right people” are in charge isn’t strong enough.
Start with a local challenge.
Shift the narrative.
Show one example.
Build on success.
Abundance asks us to empower others to fix what we already have the power to change. We think you don’t need to wait for permission.”
regenerative cities mood board and continuing education for EMBR
Earthship Academy in Taos, NM or online
