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8/ "Work, motion, life," notes William Bryant Logan, "All rise from the dirt and stand upon it as upon a launching pad." In the act of reconciling our individual autobiographies to a larger, earthly web of relations, we enfold ourselves within the evolving Story of Planet Earth.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 May 2021

@MelissaFloBix 2/ The reconciliatory key? Dynamically integrating the more-than-human realm. Eliade: “In many ancient agricultural societies, woman is assimilated to the soil, seed to the semen virile, and conjugal union to the work.” Jesus is our hero of integration. ?s=20

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Plough Work the Garden, and the integrity of a fully-enfleshed, participative, symbiotic conversation with the eternal pagan substrate of meaning itself, the wholeness, beauty, goodness and harmony of the total biological and cultural process we call Life, pours forth into our lives.Quoted by@Plough Work the Garden, and the integrity of a fully-enfleshed, participative, symbiotic conversation with the eternal pagan substrate of meaning itself, the wholeness, beauty, goodness and harmony of the total biological and cultural process we call Life, pours forth into our lives.