a vortex of lust

[chelidon]

Ah-yup. (thanks to queen_of_wands for the pointer):

My Farm is a humming, buzzing, and vibrating vortex of lust

good article by Michael Ableman:

I used to think that if I could just tell folks why it was important to consider another way, if I could be more eloquent in my expression, if I could just convince them, beat them into submission, that things would change. Now I think if I could just grow the best tomato.

I’ve realized that pleasure is a much greater motivator for change than guilt.
(full article here)

Comments

[jennlynn-green.livejournal.com]

*LOL* I love this and totally agree. I hope many embrace the sensual pleasures of gardening themselves, and/or shopping at farmers' markets and rubbing their faces in the herbs and fresh produce.

Thanks for sharing - J

[america-divine.livejournal.com]

So many people haven't eaten real food and take great pleasure in things like tomatoes and strawberries in more organic, duly ripened and unrefrigerated states. Makes me wonder about the potential of "eat-ins" or new forms of "Green Dragon Dinners" for consciousness-raising and community building... I know some of the more committed local locovores do this amongst themselves, but it could be more... (I have a history with two religions that emphasize food and am fascinated by how the sacred meal worked in the Father Divine movement... in those instances, a major draw and major keeper... coupled with ecology, it seems to have much more potential.

I think that because of cultural programming, when many people hear the word "lust," they think of frustrated dissatisfaction--wanting rather than being and celebrating--craving rather than a lusty demeanor, selfishness rather than mutual pleasure. Only penned animals are sexually frustrated, and few seem to dwell in OR defer desire. There's also so much "other" and objectification in human lust that doesn't seem to apply to non-human sexuality. I'm not sure it's the best language for the general culture, though I would like to see sexual and ecological healings be more convergent (and political, too, a la Wilhelm Reich). They're alive, and life is what it is and celebrates what it has--I'm not sure I like the slippage between lusty and lust in a post-Christian culture.