An update:

Over a month has gone by,
quick and full.
Too full to be precise,
I can only report vaguely.

My final project has changed somewhat.
Not my thesis or what my central belief is,
but rather how it will take form.
It has become more narrative/journalistic,
and more limited in its scope.
An outline is below.

0- Seeds and Sprouts
• Opening Narrative: Fukuoka, Hawthorne Valley, and the Seeds of the DharmaFarmer
• Introduction to this work- purpose, layout, and limitations

1- Nascence
• Narrative: Obo, Buddhism, and the Beginning of Personal Journey

2- Death Rattles and Birth Pains
• Narrative: Wim and the Crash/The Doom of Our Time
-Environmental Timeline, Lovelock, Stern Review, Living -Planet Report (what is dying)
-Deep Ecology Narrative and Platform Principles (what is -birthing)
• Permaculture Methods
• Joanna Macy’s Great Turning/the Bigger Picture
-Refinement of consciousness as an aspect of EcoConscious l-iving

3- Reconnecting
• Narrative: Yogic Birth- the beginning of deeper Sadhana
-Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga
• Spiritual Practice: a Practical Guide
-Insight- anapana, vipassana, samatha, jhana
-Devotion and Action- Bhakti Yoga and Karma Yoga
• Methodless Methods
-Tao and Zen
-Revising Fukuoka and ‘Do-Nothing Farming’
• Realizing EcoConsciousness/Union

4- The DharmaFarm
• Sirius Community Case Study

Also, I have decided to graduate in January,
as opposed to December originally.
And I still have no idea what will happen after college,
though things may continue on as they always have.
Buddhas in the past, Buddhas in the present, Buddhas in the future,
that's what they tell me.

Does anyone feel what's coming?
We're primed,
we're at the height of some tradjectory.
Are we in that brief and intoxicating moment of weightlessness?

How will we respond?
How will I respond?

We must remember to be as children,
we must humble oursevles in the holiness of the planet,
we must remember our community and our communion,
when hardship arrives.
When, under darkened skies,
we make right and good and beautiful
all that we despoiled.

We underestimate our potential.
Let us CoCreate our shared future,
actualizing it through thought
becoming vision
becoming aspiration
becoming action
becoming fruition.
This is how you grow tasty fruit!
Let's plant tasty thoughts, eh?
Each seed counts...

Peace and ease to you