Terry Court’s story about
the starfish was among the highlights of the February conversation Beneath the Wisteria.
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| A simple story about the starfish is inspiring and helps us understand ideals important to those working to see our communities have a reasoned response to climate change. |
The story, about a young
girl and starfish, tells about perseverance against
great odds and against the criticism of others is the very hallmark of
value-based idealism, as is refusing to accept failure.
Ideals essential to
those to meet Beneath the Wisteria to discuss a reasoned response to climate
change.
Terry told the story to a
group of Girl Guides a few days before the gathering Beneath the Wisteria and retold the essence of it to the 12 people
at the Saturday, February 25, gathering – read The Starfish Story here.
The Girl Guides, Terry
said, wondered what “their starfish story” was, prompting those who had
gathered Beneath the Wisteria to
consider a response to climate change, about their starfish story.
The February topic was “food
security” igniting some conversation about the relevance and connection between
local food security and that being experienced throughout the world.
Some felt it would be
difficult to have a relevant conversation in a society such as Australia’s in
which an overwhelming number of people are overweight and of those and large
percentage is technically obese.
There was considerable conversation
about community gardens, home gardens, the need to eat seasonal food and the
broad distortion supermarkets bring to our diet through presenting for sale
foods that many are unaware of and would not want if they were ignorant of
their existence.
The supermarkets, in the
view of Ian Coldwell, claim the foodstuffs are there because of customer
demand, but really, he pointed out the demand only exists after customers are
made aware of the food by the supermarkets.
“Energy” will be the
focus for discussion at the Saturday, March 31, 11:30am gathering Beneath the Wisteria .
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