Thank you all for helping me. It was a very important meeting and I'm extremely hopeful that things are going to be more friendly from now on. Especial thanks to Jane for her purple fire infinity meditation.
Merla wrote: > As you already know, I am the only organic member of the Bonner County > Weed Advisory Board and am the leader of a neighborhood cooperative > organic weed control project on Rapid Lightning Road in Sandpoint, > Idaho. > > Today at 1:30 PST I will be attending the first Board Meeting with our > new Weed Supervisor, Brad Bluemer. I will be presenting my report of > the 2001 cost-share program for Rapid Lightning Road. > > Please send prayers for understanding between the other members of the > Board, the Weed Supervisor and me..and for them to have an attitude of > willingness to have an organically controlled road in the county and not > just say "majority rules." Also visualize me protected from any hatred > that is projected toward me and my being able to have compassion for > them and not feel hatred in return. > > Their thinking is based on a paradigm informed by the use of herbicide. > Even though Rapid Lightning residents mowed and weedate all the tops of > all the weeds before they went to seed, members of the Board and Brad > are proposing to make the decision on whether to spray us or not based > on the emergence of weed crowns in the spring. I've told him this > doesn't make sense. > > They want everything to happen instantly as in spraying > herbicide=immediate dead plants and they really don't want anyone to > demonstrate successful organic weed control. I have tried to inform the > Weed Supervisor about paradigms by sending him an exerpt from a > wholistic management website <managingwholes.com>, but he didn't > undersand and thought what I sent him was for philosophers, not farmers. > > Thank you all for spiritual support. If I can just reach these people, > I might get a chance to try the field broadcaster next year or some time > in the future. > > Merla
