Published in:
Mother Pelican: The Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability, 2021
Summary:
Practicing Non-Violence through Creative-Waste Living
I had met Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, at Peaceweavers while Zazu and I were living at EcoVillage Ithaca. His book, Be The Change: A Grandfather Gandhi’s Story, tells how Gandhi taught him as a young boy the connection between non-violence and not wasting—even a worn-away pencil stub. His story is about recognizing and nurturing the sacred in everyday objects. This awareness—so beautiful and simple—had been the foundation of how I had lived since leaving home as a teenager to live on communes and organic farms in Europe and North Africa. Now, in the physical creation of our home, I had the chance to live Gandhi’s philosophy of not wasting as a commitment to nonviolence…
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