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<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>To those people who in my
earlier post perceived a <U>symbol</U> of our contemporary visual language
(which you likely first observed as a youth), or for that matter any others, I
encourage you to participate in an new process of not only visualization, but of
the "experience" of the development of your built environment. Of learning
what your (our) contemporary culture is saying. [What IS our climate
saying? What is our infrastructure saying? What are we saying
to/with our communities?] In this specific case it has to do with the
development of one acre of land. The timing is flexible and the process
has been ongoing for years. There is no end, it is the journey.
[more of this will come in the future as I have time to
devote]</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>Concurrently,
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>I am using this forum
for my own purposes to generate connection and synchronicity here. To some
extent my effort has a focus on the Palouse (Moscow, more specifically;
and one acre of land, more generally), but it's even more
focused locally in AZ. Prescott does not have much use of the social
technology that many other more "sophisticated" societies do. I'm using
some of Moscow's online community dialogue to indoctrinate (actually educate) my
local colleagues in more "progressive" strategies. This place (AZ state)
has seen high influx and exponential growth and now has the resulting negative
turmoil of such malignant expansion. Now is the time for its re-adjustment
and a re-engagment with a more sustainable flow and drawing on its human
(community) resources.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>Here,
residential-related sectors have a most serious and acute stenosis, most
others markets (tourism, retail, and such) will continue to struggle &
survive. Those with enough "sophistication" (higher education, government,
financials, etc) will know what they're doing, continue at a modest pace,
strategically metering their expeditures while also being creative in
maximizing their eventual return from those academic &/or economic
investments. Infrastructure is a key element, more frequently
meaning: maintain and repair what you have and don't build new if you don't
have to. The conservation of resources, but simultaneously not leaving out
strategic planning for the extended future. There is likely some area for
improved efficiency that outweighs our trashing existing consumables [re:
resources.] Maybe there's a way to strategically weave that trash into the
community fabric - as a enhancement rather than a landfill
by-product? Maybe it's about what WE want to put ON, IN, UNDER,
or OVER our land?</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>I love NAKED land. It's
so pure. So virgin and fragile [even as most of us know what Mother
Earth has gone through her life - w/ asteroids and massive obliteration of
ecosystems]. She is easily altered [ants can move Earth], yet seeming
infinitely resilient to catastrophy, having thousands of millennia to recover
and regain a harmonic, though continually
evolving, symbiology.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>So it's with my utmost
reverence for every square foot of land that I destroy, through my man-made
environments, that I also seek to make a readable language that furture
generations will understand and have a reverence for that is at least as equal
as mine. If they "need" to destroy it, they are also "aware" of their
need.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>Anyone's efforts will have
near-term ROI, while others are more spreadout over Time. The strategic
ones even hedge <U>some</U> of their bets to be positioned for their next big
wave in the future. As with surfing, without this acceleration and
having the momentum to make the "ride," one has to ask, "Where's the fun?"
They might consider, "It's not about the final ride-out onto shore, but rather
the whole surfing-process." It's the pomp and circumstance, of ceremony,
weather, technology, community, the sand between your toes, and the Woody's, or
spending gas money so you can have fun not needing gas to propel yourself
forward on a foil bouyed upon a liquid.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>It's the Partnership and
Collaboration in the Creative process. Knowing that the process
destroys as it creates, but with the hope that it creates more out of
less, or at least it is/was FUN.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>Mark</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>p.s. - <SPAN
class=453022806-18122008><FONT size=2>I applaud Linda, Aly, Nancy and Judy
in their recent efforts to engage the community in dialogue and to offer a
synopsis of that citizens' discussion to the upper levels of government.
There is a harmony in their efforts that is seeking further resonance.
Without it, at least they've done their part for synchronicity. With it
they could resonate as far as Washington [DC (not just Pullman)] and even
beyond. Sincere Kudos!</FONT></SPAN>
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