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In Celebration of the New Millennium
Last spring I found a sapling, only a few inches tall, growing amongst the
daffodils When the buds formed leaves I realized it was an apple tree Each fall I
spread the decayed organic matter that comes from the compost pile throughout the
garden which helps to protect the plants during the winter and adds nutrients
I remembered a vast amount o f apple peelings I ’d added to the compost the year before
The peelings had come from a box o f apples a friend had gathered from a Gravenstien
apple tree that had been planted over 50 years ago in the Willamette valley
By fall the sapling had grown to a foot tall When I made plans for this year’ s garden
in my new 2000 year garden calendar, I noted the date I ’d found the small tree in the
spring o f 1999
I thought what better way to celebrate the beginning o f the new century than
to leave this sapling to grow amongst the daffodils
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back')
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W ith all the ruction and hoopla surrounding the
coming o f the second m illenium , I guess your Professor
is obligated to make some comment regarding the
event. I f I were a Berber tribesman or a Chinese
peasant, it might just wash by without much effect.
Like it or no, those o f us o f Western European descent,
steeped in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, must give a
nod to its arrival
I've always been slightly unsettled about the notion
o f time Kalpas, epochs, aeons, centuries, mandalas,
ages, years, periods, hours, minutes, light-years, what's
a soul to make o f it all? Perhaps I should be amped up
and quivering in every fiber o f my being, poised to take
the first footsteps into a new world, a peaceful and
harmonious place unlike the old, a snake shedding its
skin like the world serpent or the Phoenix rising from a
charred plain. Somehow I find m yself skeptical and
dubious. The publicity surrounding the event smells
vaguely like the 1984 O lym pic Games in Los Angeles, a
jingoist event orchestrated by the inheritors o f the
Disney W orld Dream.
We Westerners like measurements and order. We
cipher and tally up minutes and hours like drudge bean
counters, shifting beads on the abacus o f our lives. Our
very notion o f "time," supposes linearity, a continuum
with a vector either forward or back. We have a "past,"
a sentimental time giving shape to our "present," and a
"future," which is im plicitly better and more promising
in our cultural vision. Time is like a long straight
highway vanishing into the nether. We clim b onto the
tarmac, journey stumblingly down the road fo r a life
span, then crumple corporeally into the ditch.
Other world folks see endlessly recurring and
repetitive cycles, rolling over infinitely. Still others
view existence as an enveloping constant or an ongoing
present moment. Hell, I don't know what to think!
I do like to think o f our concept o f "time" as
analagous to surveying or navigating. Confronted with
a vast tract o f natural world, we creatures began
imposing artificial metes and bounds, making
wilderness tenable, shaping the unknown to human size.
W ithout an accurate chronograph, navigation becomes
impossible. W ithout surveys, seas and landforms
remain inchoate matter, amorphous and too grand for
human scale.
I guess all this rumagging around is by way o f saying
I don't know quite what to do on this m idnight o f
December 31 st, in the Year o f Our Lord, Nineteen
Hundred and Ninety-Nine! I f I were Chinese, this
coming Year o f the Dragon, commencing February 5th,
would be the 4,698th year. No problem there. A nice
fiery dragon would bode well fo r the next line o f days.
Electronics, machinery, and Christianity have
unsettled many among us. Stopping at the bank a few
weeks ago, I encountered a disturbing circumstance. A
pitiable elderly woman huddled in a bank cubicle,
raving and sobbing. Television, doom-sayers, and news
broadcasts had left her in a classic state o f fear and
trembling. The bank tellers couldn't still her fears.
"What w ill become o f us!" she bleated.
"You're lucky this doesn't happen often," I suggested
to the young teller.
"Oh, but it does!" she told me, whispering. "This is
the fifth or sixth time this month!"
• Oh, dear, I thought to myself. So it's come to this!
M y friend, John Dube, told me he's established his
own tradition. Every New Year's Eve he sits on his
chopping block in the yard and contemplates life. I
generally take a walk on the beach. That should serve
this year as it has most others.
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
- Jimi Hendrix
'The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of "happiness” by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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