Disturbance, dislocation and disembodiment. Almost as though we are in a process of being broken up for scrap by ever present leapfrogging linear technological improvement.
How do villages of actual people resist as our cities and towns crowd in on themselves building themselves into total artificiality.
As a farmer I am lucky to be amongst a village community via the Sheep and Cattle whose heads appear above the hedges of neighbour's fields and gardens. (James Ravilious - "Down the deep lanes" etc).
In watching over the animals I have a third party allowance to chat at random. The chance for weightless interaction and the sharing of the joy of being in the countryside but also the chance to help others when a need arises.
Thanks for your comment Bruce. I'm so interested in how farming life offers natural protection against the fragmentation of community (or doesn't, as in the case of mega farms operated by computers and lone workers, and the rise in loneliness). And how non-human life enters into that community, offering a deeper ecology of place. The chance to help and be helped are both so important in community -- perhaps self-sufficiency makes it hard to enter into the village. James Ravilious worked near to where we are -- his photos are brilliant. Thank you as ever!
Morning Elizabeth, I'm delighted to have discovered your 'blog' Redlands, and would like to send you some of my thoughts about community ( which I also recently , albeit briefly, shared with Gill Westcott). Please do let me know the email address to use, warmest, Paula Kovacs (Crofts resident, Sandford)
Disturbance, dislocation and disembodiment. Almost as though we are in a process of being broken up for scrap by ever present leapfrogging linear technological improvement.
How do villages of actual people resist as our cities and towns crowd in on themselves building themselves into total artificiality.
As a farmer I am lucky to be amongst a village community via the Sheep and Cattle whose heads appear above the hedges of neighbour's fields and gardens. (James Ravilious - "Down the deep lanes" etc).
In watching over the animals I have a third party allowance to chat at random. The chance for weightless interaction and the sharing of the joy of being in the countryside but also the chance to help others when a need arises.
Thanks for your comment Bruce. I'm so interested in how farming life offers natural protection against the fragmentation of community (or doesn't, as in the case of mega farms operated by computers and lone workers, and the rise in loneliness). And how non-human life enters into that community, offering a deeper ecology of place. The chance to help and be helped are both so important in community -- perhaps self-sufficiency makes it hard to enter into the village. James Ravilious worked near to where we are -- his photos are brilliant. Thank you as ever!
Morning Elizabeth, I'm delighted to have discovered your 'blog' Redlands, and would like to send you some of my thoughts about community ( which I also recently , albeit briefly, shared with Gill Westcott). Please do let me know the email address to use, warmest, Paula Kovacs (Crofts resident, Sandford)
Thank you Paula! I've only just seen your comment. Glad to have you here. Thanks too for your email, which I'll respond to soon.