Bodhisattvic Blogging

So…Since the day I met our friendly philosopher CEO or perhaps the day after- Brian has been trying to convince me to blog.

Hmmm… I had heard about these blogs- some kind of Internet fad, right?…

I remained suspicious as to why anyone would want to launch random thoughts into cyberspace, and why anyone would want to read them.

The other day Brian and I were sitting outside Native Foods (awesome awesome vegan restaurant) and reading our respective books-

His- on shifting culture through education-

Mine- Green Remodeling- changing the world one room at a time by David Johnston.  (I knew it was a good book when I read the Ken Wilber endorsement in the book) When I remembered that I had underlined the following quote for Brian.

 “We are using our natural resources at an unsustainable rate. According to Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of commerce, “Today’s population uses in one day what it took nature 10,000 days to create.” To say it another way, we are living on our energy capital (store petroleum and coal) and squandering our income (solar energy.) If you ran your company on your capital savings and ignored current income, you wouldn’t be in business very long. Green building is a step toward reversing that trend.”

As an “Environmentalist” I am always struggling to communicate a mountain of aggregated knowledge about the state of our planet to others in a way that is constructive, non- alarmist, practical and digestible.

That quote struck me as one that I might share with Brian because it speaks to him in a language that he understands.

I grew up between Los Angeles, Milan Italy and Texas- speaking English, Spanish, Italian and Texan.

I grew up with a love of language, an insatiable appetite for words, and a fever in my fist that kept me scrawling on every notebook and napkin within reach.

I grew up longing to translate one language into another, to translate the world I witnessed into words, to translate pain into wisdom. I grew up asking myself the question:

How is it that we are all saying the same thing but none of us can understand one another?

Now I speak Poetry, Politics, Spirituality and Ecology.

Brian also speaks many tongues.  Among others, he speaks Compassion, Economics, and Spirituality mellifluously.

Today we found common ground when we came to the realization that it is our Bodhisattvic obligation to the world to Blog.

Again, as always, it comes back to intention intention intention…

This morning I read Heather (Art Czar’s) most recent Blog about so many things that have been humming in my own mind lately-

Fear as fuel, True Value, Being a Powerful and imperfect mother.

Then Matthew (Youthful Maturity’s) Blog- Blind Faith vs. the Gift of Faith.

 And then Brian’s 80/20 principle article… 

It would be a crime for these people to scribble into their journals and keep their enlightened humor and inspired intelligence to themselves.

What potent, generous, awe-inspiring people we have gravitating to this nexus!

Zaadz has just barely sprouted and already the planets have aligned, the trumpets have sounded and the cows have come home.

What do we all have in common?                                Our intention.

We’re gonna change the world. Does anyone doubt our ability to do so?

We are out there doing it already. Healing others with our hearts, our hands, our words. By Green Remodeling- one room at a time…Making small choices that DO (Yes they really DO make a difference.)

With every exhale, each one of us- improve the atmosphere- charging each molecule with purpose. With promise.

Riding the crest of Brian’s enthusiasm I encourage everyone in our ever-growing Zaadz tribe to Blog blog blog blog blog.

Share with me your thoughts, your journey; the little words you read in a book that change the way you see the world. Help me change the way I see the world and therefore change the world.