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Joy in the Darkness?
"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts," says the mad (but wise) farmer.
Peace in the Darkness?
We wage peace, not war, on a crooked path toward Shalom.
Hope in the Darkness?
Can Hope simply be dormant - waiting for the right time to break through and live in a new way?
The simplest of prayers
Togetherness, generosity, and gratitude can soften us like seeds in the ground as we as we look around and say - Thank you!
Oh, Hummingbird
Practice bizarre behavior - Look for the nectar in the Other - and, perhaps in a not so small way, save your part of the world.
Do Something
God won't do it for you. You got to get up, even if you've been beaten down, and do something until everyone is free.
Restoring Missing Voices
Womanism helps us apply the Golden Rule to hear voices and songs once forgotten.
A Womanist Lens
With a womanist lens, we are given permission to question relentlessly in order to liberate the muted voices in our midst.
Longing for Home
Living responsibly in some small part of the world begins and ends with love and fidelity.
An Unsettled Source
The soil is the great connector of lives,
the source and destination of all.
the source and destination of all.
An Unsettled Character
Seeing the ecological crisis as a crisis of character and the disease of specialization from which we need healing.
Unsettled in America
What would it look like if we finally settled as Americans and really intended to be where we live in the places where we are?
A Kitchen of Hope
Biscuits and compost offer hope and grace in the messy but very good new creations every day.
Kitchen Reflections
Follow trustworthy principles (and recipes) in farming and life but allow for adjustments. Reflect and trust your senses.
Kitchen Interactions
There are interactions on the table that invite us into a multiplicity of relationships. How can we eat with our ecosystems in mind?
Kitchen Stories
The kitchen is a keeper of our stories and connects us to the garden and to each other.
A Commonwealth
If you call your home a commonwealth, does it create within you a mindset of who you are, where you are, and what you have in common?
Trees of Life
The message of the trees: to treasure the gift of life and to be held together in a web of reciprocity.
Local food-in the News!
Headline news tells is that an increase in local food production is a top priority.
The Strength of Local
If "the strength of free peoples resides in the local community," how do we rebuild a local food system?
Living Roots
Learn from and maintain the living roots of our family trees and our democracy.
The Berry Center
For any nation to survive and prosper, it must jealously guard and preserve its ability to feed itself through small farms, not corporations.
Bonton Farms
Humans, like plants, need the right conditions to flourish. A garden led to a an urban farm where the seven human essentials are planted.
A Plan of Complexity
God does not reside in the stifling control of any rigid or fundamentalist plans. Rather, the one who breathes life into a handful of earth remains creatively open to the complexities of all ever-evolving and interconnected relationships that are moving towards life, healing, wholeness, and restoration.
RAIN - a four letter word
Nature is indifferent to us and our frustrations - but we are saved in the end by the things that ignore us. (5/22/24)
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