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.
Thank you Ryan for spending time on this. I can only imagine how fulfilling it might be to watch children awaken to the awareness of life and death through soil. We share a profound connection to our great green mother, I wonder how many more decades before we collectively agree that she exists not be extracted from but to live in relationship with.
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.
Thank you Ryan for spending time on this. I can only imagine how fulfilling it might be to watch children awaken to the awareness of life and death through soil. We share a profound connection to our great green mother, I wonder how many more decades before we collectively agree that she exists not be extracted from but to live in relationship with.
Hope you have a peaceful and safe week ahead 💜
Wishing you the same 💚
Beautiful. 🩶
Thank you Jo 💜