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Re: zone peac6
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: zone peac6
- From: georg <georg@2012.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:18:01 +0100
- In-reply-to: <LYR101636-45398-2000.03.23-00.04.43--georg#2012.org@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
At 21:04 22.03.00 PST, you wrote:
>Additionally, the linguistic device of describing elder males who accomplish
>great vision as fathers... like in "the fathers of this nation"... works
>just fine as a term of respect in my estimation as a poetic tool. There's no
>subtext or anything I need to "get over". Teaching and stewarding a stable,
>agreed-upon foundation for collaborative practice has been a important
>traditional role of older men, and also older women, even to the point of a
>conservatism or orthodoxy to keep younger adepts on focused. I have no
i think 'elders' is the acceptable term in the perma-cult ;-)