I Found Myself Unexpectedly Writing A Green Party Platform For A Local Selectman Candidate.

The Boothbay Peninsula needs leadership that takes environmental sustainability seriously!

I started to write the story that came to have the title The LifeStyle Approach To Economic Development Makes An Environmentally Sustainable Paradigm for Substack, thinking I was going to write a quick post but I have never been able to follow the plan when working creatively. Creative work has a will of its own and writing this post was creative for me since I had no idea where it was going once I got past thinking it was a quick short post, and least of all did I know that I would start writing a party platform for the imaginary Green Party of the Boothbay Peninsula. In effect, I was telling myself what to do, to become more politically active and connected.

The post turned out to be too long for Substack so I posted it on Medium. It might have been a fit with The Age of Awareness which is more high profile than Woodworkers of the World Unite, but Woodworkers seems to be aggressively promoting stories and I would really like to connect more with hand-made makers, AND I see some very…