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Ryan Rose Weaver (she/hers)'s avatar

Thank you for this beautiful reflection on the holiness of dirt. When I taught gardening classes to kids a few years back, the lessons on compost bordered on the spiritual. It was miraculous to watch children awakening in real-time to a deeper understanding of the life-death-life cycle, and where they fit into it. I love the way you’ve brought millipedes, as real animal and also as metaphor, into the picture. I’ll be thinking about that one for a while.

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Jonathan Foster's avatar

Wonderful as always, Swarnali. Such beautiful writing and grounded thoughts.

“It is the slow erosion of genuine goodness in ordinary people that worries me.” Like the ever growing garden this will return when the powered classes stop spreading division and hatred. Goodness isn’t eroding, it’s hibernating :)

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