My family and I spent the last week at the Oregon Country Fair. It is a yearly ritual for us. My partner Yemaya is an amazing belly dancer at the beautiful Gypsy stage. Normally my days and nights are filled with walking around from booth to booth. Watching amazing musicians and performers in every style you can imagine.
During the daytime as many as 20,000 people stroll through the fair and many wonderful connections are made. Night time is a whole different story. Somewhere around 7,000 people work behind the scenes as performers, construction, food servers and much more. My job every year is to build a stage and take care of my little girl while Yemaya dances. But this year was different for me. I found myself driven to spread words of peace and action.
In a setting that many try to disconnect from what is going on in the world I found that hundreds of my friends wanted talk about the opportunities developing to help propel change. This is where bio diesel comes in. I spoke constantly about changing our personal habits and driving a bio diesel was a huge attention getter. People from all over the world left this last week with a confidence in themselves to make the change, the bio diesel seed grows.
I am an optimist when it comes to people. I believe in the human spirit and I know how strong we can be when we have to be. I will not sit still and watch others form my world into a violent dirty place. I will actively create the world I want. I want a world where communities take control of their resources and remove the greedy hand from their pockets.
I read somewhere recently that the harder I work the luckier I get. I agree with this and we need to work together now. Please work with your fellow humans. Please work with me now by buying a diesel for your next car. Hopefully we will get lucky and create a planet worthy of our children.
By the way, in all of this action talk I still had a blast with friends and family and bonded with many new loving people.
Joshua Peace Seeker
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Posted by: joe ebo | August 08, 2006 at 11:17 AM