Comments on: Make It Better http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/04/12/make-it-better/ Notes on paddling, fly-fishing, hiking, conservation, writing and reading, the St. Croix River, and life in Minnesota. Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: cK http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/04/12/make-it-better/comment-page-1/#comment-19203 cK Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:01:28 +0000 http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/04/12/make-it-better/#comment-19203 Ah, before the Internet and Nintendo and such there were great machines ripping up farms and turning them into subdivisions and interstates. And there were draglines the size of football fields carving out coal seams. And further back... Something is always there distracting us, and it's always a thing about human advance and access--access to food supplies and information and one another. But I don't think any generation goes by without realizations of what we're always losing, which is land. It's not expressed the same way, and a great deal of disrespect and bad decisions take place, but each generation figures it out. It does help to introduce them to it earlier, even if in those years they don't see it quite right. They will, eventually. -cK Ah, before the Internet and Nintendo and such there were great machines ripping up farms and turning them into subdivisions and interstates. And there were draglines the size of football fields carving out coal seams. And further back…

Something is always there distracting us, and it’s always a thing about human advance and access–access to food supplies and information and one another.

But I don’t think any generation goes by without realizations of what we’re always losing, which is land. It’s not expressed the same way, and a great deal of disrespect and bad decisions take place, but each generation figures it out.

It does help to introduce them to it earlier, even if in those years they don’t see it quite right. They will, eventually.
-cK

]]> By: rosie http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/04/12/make-it-better/comment-page-1/#comment-19192 rosie Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:31:15 +0000 http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/04/12/make-it-better/#comment-19192 i don't know that i've ever tasted huckleberries. but the moment that the kid tasted them and said that god loves us--that's beautiful and gives me hope too. on our deathbeds, when we search in our last moments for god and peace and understanding, what are we looking for but the same feeling we get when we are standing in a field of wild huckleberries? i don’t know that i’ve ever tasted huckleberries. but the moment that the kid tasted them and said that god loves us–that’s beautiful and gives me hope too.

on our deathbeds, when we search in our last moments for god and peace and understanding, what are we looking for but the same feeling we get when we are standing in a field of wild huckleberries?

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