Many things inspire, including but not limited to (in random order):
- Azby Brown’s Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan
- Charles Eisenstein’s Ascent of Humanity
- Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution
- My wife’s parent’s hometown of Uchinoura on Kyushu
- My wife
- Always feeling like a stranger in a strange land in America, but feeling strangely at home when in Japan
- The long-held intuition that humanity is birthing a new level of awareness in the evolution of consciousness, a lived awareness that we are one interconnected whole
- The insight that our old masculine-values-oriented paradigm is on its way out, and being replaced by a new feminine-values-oriented worldview of cooperation and collaboration
- The recognition that this paradigm shift will manifest in practical terms through increasing worldwide efforts to relocalize and revitalize community, and making socio-ecosystems sustainable and resilient by maintaining biodiversity and ecological health
- The belief that while this transition between paradigms will be profoundly disruptive to our civilization’s status quo, it will ultimately result in a new way of being in the world, indeed a new human, and a new world
