I believe that society must be reconstructed to enlarge the contribution of autonomous individuals and primary groups to the total effectiveness of a new system of production designed to satisfy the human needs which it also determines.
-Illich (1973)
Frog Birds, Autonomous Individuals and Groups
The time is now to listen to Frog Birds, intensify your autonomous local groups and fly kites regardless of the occasional fluky wind and rainstorm.
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Every evening in spring I hear the Wood Cock croaking in our fields like a frog bird. Usually on the edge in a wild-scape it beckons “greeck, greeck, greeck”. Then, as it flies into the dusk draped fields surrounded by woods I hear its song change to an ethereal call of light tones, sweet, light and comforting; as a mountain vista is in the west after making that last push over the ridge. I know the sound of the Wood Cock like that of the eagles laugh and humming bird’s wing song….it is familiar. Likewise I know the sound of my community, our transition movements, the organizations that shelter change makers and ready for the next bend in the river to support them. I know also the schools which dot my region waiting like a confused flock abandoned by their masters and
