Words&Dirt

Give me level earth, and there I shall build my home.  There is something hopeful and also mulish in this sentiment, which embodies our noble determination to shape the world according to desire as well as our failure to live wholly within the natural systems that contain us.  Such was my thinking when the carbon […]

“First, in our interactions, we must not look askance at each other (ni).  We must get beyond viewing each other obliquely and with distrust.  In the mutual shaping that occurs through both patterns of deference and the modeling that such patterns entail, we require the utmost focus and concentration and the fullest application of all […]