16/ This wasn’t critique for its own sake. It was incarnation in orchard and word, in bread shared and lives interwoven—experience refusing both abstraction and retreat. His Islam sang with the unlettered, defied landlords, and made justice visible in the rhythms of daily life.
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Copy of tweet here: 2/ Lots of folk acutely alert to the reality of civilizational collapse are adapting to responsive, optimistic, engaged, constructive lives. A hint? “Start feeding people, start working with others to produce food, and you suddenly have a community; probably a very diverse one.” Painting of stylized cross with calligraphy reading, “Feeding the hungry is greater work than raising the dead. - St. John Chrysosdom. Calaveras County Poor People’s Campaign Farm Hmm. Given that Sikhism’s special relation with food and farming, to this day, represents a great relative strength among world religions, I wonder if the tradition may yet contribute a uniquely vital perspective and approach to the planetary regenerative-design movement.
@FAO We can go further. All of us are made to live in societies that have a beneficial effect on body, mind and soul. The character of food systems defines whether societies' root, animating, infinitely penetrating patterns, forces and principles are therapeutic or not. #WorldFoodDay
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Copy of tweet here: We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”