[Iyf-ct] When shall we five meet again?

[Peter van Heusden]

Whose up for a meeting on Sunday? About 11am? To discuss the RRFM and
other issues.

And here's a quote I liked, illustrating what I think we were trying to
get at with the RRFM:

"I live with animals and plants. It is my practice and lifestyle to
grow, forage preserve food, make medicine and build soil. This practice
of mine is an economy in and of itself. It sustains me and I am also
able to use it to create other economies that create other relationships
with people and sometimes ones that pay the bills. I use aesthetic
strategies to illuminate and frame this lifestyle."

(from http://www.arthurmag.com/2010/01/04/embody-your-economies/)

An economy isn't just about money, or "production, distribution and
consumption of goods and services" (from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system) - its about the
organisation of time, and thus labour, and of relationships - with each
other, with the soil and the planet and its animals and plants. And
ultimately it *should* be about building healthy relationships, in the
realisation that all the lives on our planet are interdependent (so an
economy relies on an ecology).

In a healthy economy, paying the bills is just one thing to worry about
- yet I sense that it is precisely the anxiety of bills that feeds into
the anxiety around matters economic, the anxiety that even infected the
RRFM (with concerns about stickers for goods taken, concerns about the
presence of "bergies", etc).

Peter