greenstorm | Emplacement

Greenstorm, at one point you had a revelation about the interrelationship between "plant permaculture" (how to grow plants in a labour-space-etc efficient manner) and "cultural permaculture" where the behaviour of the people consuming the plants was important. You should not then be surprised when, in your personal life, your own culture and emplacement is as important to you as growing plants is. We are more than what we do, pay attention to that truism.

There are many aspects to the permaculture of your life. Gardening has always been the strongest and easiest to pin down, you have done it everywhere, it's easy to say you 'do' gardening. You also 'do' social relationships, sexual relationships, love relationships, relationships with the land around you and its seasons and soil and weather and changing features. To be a whole person you cannot simply follow one and ignore the rest, however convenient it may be. You need many kinds of stimulation and contact. It's as reductionist to think that you'll be okay "doing" what you want as it is to think that someone is what they do (though of course there are people who try very hard to put themselves into a box that small).

You live in Vancouver. You just do. You're a gardener. You just are. See it. Acknowledge it. Accept it. Now do your thing.