In my heart and mind

"Anybody, can become angry- that is easy" he wrote. "but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way that is not within everybody's power." Aristotle   "I am delighted to be called a Luddite. The position of the Luddite was in every way wise and perceptive. They opposed the imposition of a new economic order, which they predicted would destroy theiur livelihood and traditions, and lead the world in a destructive direction. They were correct. Their resistance should be an inspiration." "In the Absence of the Sacred, Jerry Mander

"American Indian thought, Philosophical Essays", Edited by Anne Waters, Blackwell Publishing, 2004. From the Introduction, pg.xxxii, on an essay by Laurie Ann Whitt. "Whitt points out that Indigenous knowledge and knowledge systems were initially deprived of cognitive standing by colonial agents. However, ..."commodification of Indigenous spiritual knowledge ..specialty of New Age industry...traditional medicinal knowledge...specialty of pharmaceutical industry, commodification of plant genetic resources and indigenous agricultural knowledge...specialty of commercial seed industry...traditional knowledge ...collectively known for generations...is being privatized and commodified at accelerating rates." This is sad as we must come to the terms of how much we have literally allowed to be stolen or absconded by bad intent from settler societies. I am guilty of assimilative practices in my lifestyle, knowing the value of what my family had given, gifted to