Sept 26 - Entrance Slip

 The writing 'Common Threads - Weaving community through collaborative eco-art' raises some good points about re-learning skills that we as a community have stopped participating in. I do agree that the convenience with which we are able to acquire things we need has made us reluctant to learning the skills that are essential. This made me think of my dependence on store bought Indian delicacy, called Achaar, which are pickled vegetables or fruits, and complaining about it not being as good as my grandma's. Pickling in Indian culture might soon become a lost art if we don't learn to do it ourselves. In the writing, it is also mentioned that once oil is hard and more expensive to extract, outsourcing goods might not be possible. I had previously thought about this, but now having read it, this is not my internal dialogue anymore. It made this idea more concrete for me and I feel a sense of urgency to learn new skills so that we as a community only have to depend on ourselves to fulfill our needs.