Books 📚
Added this week … 🙌🏻 Yay!
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🌵🌲🌴🌳 The Language of Plants eds. Gagliano, Ryan and Vieira
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Arts of LIving on a Damaged Planet eds. Tsing, Swanson, Gan and Bubandt.
Notes & Quotes 💬
- A resonant clip concerning the reciprocal nature of our mutual becoming and our “Staying Awake Through a Great Revolution” …
Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a ~‘communion of subjects’~. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this.
We must all learn to live together as ~kin~ or we will all perish together as fools.
We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.
~ Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King (From: A Sermon Delivered at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on 31 March 1968.)
- A Homeopathic Approach?
“To struggle against a fault increases its power, keeps our attention riveted on its presence, and bring us a battle indeed […] to forget the failing and consciously to strive to develop the virtue which would make the former impossible, this is true victory.”
~ Edward Bach, Heal Thyself, 1931).
Podcasts 🫛
- 🌟 Christena Cleveland offers a warm and wise reflection for Nomad Podcast, A spirituality of the womb Perfect timing 🎁!
On the same day I heard this marvellous talk on ripening Black Madonnas, in a wonderful synchroncity, I encounter, unbidden, these 🔗 articles …
Terra Preta do Indio is the Portuguese name for the anthropogenic pre-Columbian Amazonian soil re-discovered by archeologists in the last century, and declared by soil-scientists to be the most sustainable, fertile soil in existence, and one that can, in turn, sequester greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in the very substantial amount of 20%…
From Frederique Apfell-Margli’s essay “Re-animating the World” in Living Earth Community (70). Eds. Mickey, Tucker & Grim. Then, later in the day, this article on the [Dark Earths of the Amazon](- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240116-the-dark-earth-revealing-the-amazons-secrets) pops up … 🛸
A gorgeous constellation: Dark earths, Black Madonnas … grounds of being, wombs, umbilical tethers
Poetry 💘
- This coming week’s email haiku sign-off using the seasonal word for Major Cold ❄️, ‘crow’ 🐦⬛
the city bus stops– a caw of a winter crow through the opened door ~ Robert Spiess
- On AskMeFi, a question about possible alternatives to the short prayers you have learned by heart and often say when anxious, and how to expand your range, say. A generous horde of wonderful responses! 🙏🏻 🥰
Questions & Open Tabs 🔖
Every generation absorbs a world view they can’t see beyond
Noticing Something New 🎁
- Unlike Bond’s Martini, I’d rather be stirred than shaken
