@bearspeaks Digging wells for Palestine. So very lovely to wake to, Tom. 'Death of a Naturalist' a teenage favorite of mine. Here, deep in Oregon's greenness incarnate, I recall Norman O. Brown in 'Apocalypsis and/or Metamorphosis'; and the craft of digging.
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N.O. Brown's 'Love's Body'. Thinking drives furrows in the ground of being. De-lirium: out of the furrow. Only where there is a furrow is there any pointin going straight. Work, then; for the gods keep life hidden from humans. You | have to dig in order to dig it. The treasure is buried in a field. Consciousness is an archaeological dig. Consciousness is an ag- | ricultural dig. Go down to the underworld: it is no deeper than a ditch.'® Write, then. A Book of Hours; of Works and Days; of Sea- sons. Hours were seasons, before there were clocks; how things have speeded up! A Book of Ours. I need Thee, O I nced Thee, I need Thee every hour. | Work is mystical. A Book of Hours is still a book of prayers. Laborare est orare, to labor is to pray. The garden and the mon- astery or university: “idle monks.” The Garden Project: over- coming the distinction between the active and the contemplative life. Overcoming the distinction between works and grace. The | seasonal cycle of ritual
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"While I can talk a good craft, I'm no craftsman. I've turned my hand to all sorts of things over the year, and at times of brimming self-confidence I like to consider myself a Renaissance man, but when I get down off my high horse the expression 'Jack of all trades, master of none' is definitely more fitting. But if there is one thing I'm pretty good at, it's digging..." So says Alexander Langland in 'Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meanings of Original Crafts' at the beginning of his chapter on 'The Craft of Digging.'
N. O. Brown: “To find meaning is to find work. In alchemy, the Great Work of Transformation; transform the nature of work. Labor is fertility. Instead of Gross Natural Product, reproduction. Reproduction of the eternal earth. Ecology instead of economy.” x.com/covidyoga/status/1364322822592503809?s=20
