Monday with Marley

September 22, 2008  



The Mayan Calendar, created over 1,200 years ago and more accurate than ours, observes that the world will cease to exist as we know it on December 21, 2012. If you've been listening to the news, you might think those Mayan soothsayers were off by about four years!
 
   The truth is that every day, the world ceases to exist as we know it. The problem is, that as every day comes and goes, we don't know the truth of it.
 
   Doomsday is Boomsday IF you know the truth of it. Truth is Fact. Here are a few facts:
 
  • Unsustainable systems fail. Many of our systems are in failure.
  • Sustainable systems survive. Humans can create sustainable systems. We can also destroy them.
  • Humans are survivalists by nature. This is good and this is bad.
  • Earth is a unique and sustainable system of life giving things, water, oxygen and bottled-up solar energy.
  • Earth is like our own human body. It can be kept healthy or it can be made sick.

   To KNOW the truth about where we are and where we could be, can make of any Doomsday, a Boomsday.

The Myth: Only the big money players will survive. 
The Truth:  If you have food and water and shelter, you don't need much money.  
 
The Myth: Banks are failing. All is lost.
The Truth: You can live without banks. Bank on yourself and your neighbor.  
 
The Myth: The American middle-class is a thing of the past.
The Truth: The World middle-class is already the future.  
 
The Myth: You can't grow a business (or a town) with the world economy like it is.
The Truth: Yes you can.  
 
   Plant new seeds of growth that don't require as much water. Soak up the free energy of the sun. Store it. Use it. Build out of junk, but make it beautiful. (Truth: there is a sustainability born from beauty.) Generate your own fertilizer. Mulch. Munch. Decentralize. Hunker down and in, not up and out. Get real! Save everything. Give a lot away. Give a Shinola about what your neighbor doesn't have. Give some of what you think you don't have enough of to your neighbor. Squeeze into it. Put up with it. Wash it. Paint it. Make it beautiful! Give it away if you can't sell it. Sell what others need. Sell what you need. Create your own co-op for building materials, money, financing. Smile. It's an internationally recognized monetary system that will never fail.  
 
   Sometimes storms are good things. It depends, really, on one's perspective. Sure, storms tear down, but they also cleanse. They clean things up. They allow us to search for the truth. Storms show us what we really want.
 
   I see a world of people who stay standing, who offer a helping hand to others in need, confident that tomorrow isn't just another day.
 
   It's everything. 



Marley Porter