5/ Regularly derided as escapist, irrelevant and insignificant by 'political activists' bound and blinded, as we saw it, to the very paradigm we were actively transcending, we nonetheless powerfully sensed we were crossing a fundamentally liberatory threshold of sorts.
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Image of the ‘Pilgrimage to Fort Benning’ identifier which included a Food Not Lawns dimension, with Nick arranging seed-swaps as we crossed the country, and speaking to paradise gardening as peacemaking. And a photograph at a peace gathering in a stadium close to Fort Benning, GA, of Nick hosting a seedswap.
8/ Jubilee. Wendell Berry, meanwhile, offers a vision of “a vital, wakeful society of local communities elegantly adapted to local ecosystems”, a transformational as distinct from transactional reality, an ecological as distinct from synthetic life. bugs.scribble.com/workthatworks.html
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