What the throwback memory is about:
This morning after a night of vivid dreams (like I hear a lot of you have been having vivid dreams as well), I woke up with a memory from 2006.
From March thru September 2006, I attended a six-month eco school in New Mexico. (I was living in Austin at the time, in a little travel trailer at a beautiful urban paradise of an RV park. I rented out my trailer to a friend while I was in Santa Fe.)
The application form for the school, one of the questions was an essay question asking applicants to project into the future, and what we envisioned our role would be regarding climate change, community and so on.
In my essay, I was running an emotional support center for people struggling to cope with climate change and biospheric collapse.
Services included: Emotional support, physical resources, permaculture education, practical training, mutual aid. And games, and crafts. And just being there for people.
And this morning when i woke up with that memory in my heart, I was like, oh yeah, that’s this house! That’s what this house is all about. Now, I’ve always known that’s what this house is all about. And furthermore that’s the main reason why I even came to Daytona Beach. From Austin, a place where I also was able to contribute to the permaculture/resilience knowledge base & community before being called here.
But, I had forgotten all about that old future projection essay from 2006, and it was sort of comforting and validating to remember it this morning around 5 when I got up.
I am here to serve! I wish I were a better version of me, but I will keep striving to be that. I get that we are all works in progress.
That said, I really really want us to get very serious and step up our game to do some simple things to help mitigate the stress we are putting on the planet.
I’m going to become more vocal in the wider community; I have struggled with my messaging and all that. Sometimes bad messaging can totally undermine an effort. But I just have to keep working on it.
I am sad sometimes and angry with myself, because I have not been communicating the urgency of things as effectively as I would have liked. And nowhere near as effectively as the level of crisis calls for.
Love you guys always! It is an honor to serve both locally and globally.
If you want to support my efforts to get the word out, please like and follow my Facebook page DEEP GREEN book by Jenny Nazak and blog www.jennynazak.com
Note, not all of the posts are for a civilian audience, so if a post seems too extreme, just know that it’s probably not meant for you, and please just feel free to take what you need and leave the rest.
I am always trying different ways of expressing things so that I can reach more people. My goal is to help the planet — our spaceship & life-support system — but also to help people be more secure and less vulnerable (emotionally, spiritually, and economically).
— jenny nazak, eco educator and community activist, community servant, earth soldier