@kaufmanjwriter @johnmilbank3 1/ It perhaps bears noting that whatever cultural tradition I move among in the 'paradise gardening' or 'new world creation movement', folk are typically non-prescriptive about home-grown, home-processed botanicals, whether for food, medicine or recreation. Grapes are everywhere.
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“But how self-exiled we nowadays are from all great gates, great openings into other worlds, great openings into this world. Nierikas, the Hoichol indians call them. The sacred, great and dangerous earth regained might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained.” - John Moriarty Image of text excerpted from beginning at: “At one level the Paradise gardening movement is aimed directly at questions such as these because it dares to mount a challenge to…” and ends, “in the natural sequence of a concrete journey into Beauty’s deepest ground, Paradise-regained and, as N.O. Brown portrays it, ‘the return of the gods.’” 9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.
@joseph_gaglione "Political and fleshly emancipation are finally one and the same; the god of epiphany is Dionysus." ~ N.O. Brown Image: grape leaf diversity selected from among ca. 750 unique cultivars at the Botner's farm in Yoncalla, OR.
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Grape leaf diversity arranged on the ground from among ca. 750 cultivars at Nick Botner's farm in Yoncalla, OR.