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I’ve seen them at other craft shows and they … don’t look, dress, or act the same. I would bet based on what I saw and overheard and who I spoke to as I talked books that they were all middle-class or working class and tended, despite the tats and piercings, to sway conservative and wary of what they were being told to believe. They were highly diverse in all the approved ways except one. The crowd was HUGE several thousand people walked by us. It’s big logistics to run a show of this size, especially since a booth space was $50. They’ve been doing this for years and are a fairly large regional festival. Some background: the Wyoming Peach festival is all-volunteer, they host all kinds of activities, vendors range from multi-level distributers like Lula Roe to people like us, peach dessert judging, Marine recruiters (next to us) and so on. I spoke to a volunteer and he (older white man although the volunteers were a mixed bag) was adamant that things had to change before they fell apart completely. My mother actually complained about this.Įven more interesting was a local (I can’t remember their name) “bring back Federalism, limited government, do things on the local level” group had bought a double vendor space (30 feet by 10) and was collecting signatures. What was interesting was that NONE of them told you their party affiliation on their signage or T-shirts. We didn’t know what to expect but I saw something I’ve not seen at craft show/peach festivals before. We’ve already got folks living in different parts of Germany and Austria, so even if you can’t make it to the potluck, you’re very welcome to send me a note – I’d be happy to get you in touch with the group.īill and I went to the Wyoming (Delaware) Peach festival on Saturday, 6 August 2022. If you are interested, get in touch through the email address above or via my dreamwidth account (milkyway1) and I’ll send you more information.Īlso, we are building up a small circle of German/Austrian/close-by ecosophia readers who want to connect with like-minded people. We’re meeting in the German South-West, close to Karlsruhe. We’re having a German ecosophia potluck on Saturday, October 15th – and yep, I’m very excited about it! □ JMG, I hope you don’t mind the Oracle being put to use in this way! (Needless to say that I will keep all private info to myself!) if you send me an email, feel free to include some details or background information besides your question, and I (or rather: the Oracle) might be able to give you some additional clarity. ![]() So if you have a situation in your life where the roles of different persons/things and their relations aren’t clear, the Oracle might be of help. If any of you folks have any queries and would like to get a divination, please send them to me that, besides divination, the Geometry Oracle is also great at shedding light on hidden structures. I’d love to improve my divination skills with the Sacred Geometry Oracle and would appreciate your help. Two offers today: Something for everybody, and something just for the Germans… □ The Flesh of your Future Sticks Between My Teeth is published by Looseleaf Publishing, the firm behind the fine deindustrial SF magazine New Maps. No, I”m not making this up.) I discussed the Grist contest on this blog here, that led to a conversation and then a contest, and here we are: an anthology of twelve stories making merry mock of the pretensions and posturings of those who’ve turned the realities of climate change into yet another excuse to dance the Wokey Pokey as though that really is what it’s all about. (The winning story in that contest had humanity saved from a dire fate by learning to use new pronouns. The Flesh Of Your Future Sticks Between My Teeth: Stories from the Gristle Cli-Fi Parody Contest had its origins a year and a half ago, when Grist Magazine launched a cli-fi (i.e., climate change fiction) contest heavily laced with fashionable pseudoprogressive rhetoric. In other news, I’m delighted to report that another anthology project spawned by this blog is in print, and this one’s a wowser. ![]() (Well, with one exception: there’s a dedicated (more or less) open post on my Dreamwidth journal on the current virus panic and related issues, so anything Covid-themed should go there instead.) All the standard rules apply - no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no rudeness, no paid propagandizing, no long screeds proclaiming the infallible truth of fill in the blank - but since there’s no topic, nothing is off topic. This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly (well, more or less!) open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers.
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