Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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22/33 Paradise begins where breath meets labor. This is not metaphor. Jesus' parable, Nund Rishi's shruk, Kabir's doha—they were all the word as tools, not just symbol. Compressed acts of construction, a vision of revolutionary tenderness revealed in sawdust, loom, and furrow. x.com/permachristians/status/1912884903198539801

Copy of tweet here: 2/ We've also spent a decade researching barely-known varieties of winter-pears at one of the world's largest and most diverse pear collections. Today, we gathered fruit from more than a hundred key candidates to track over forthcoming months. We know of no one else at such work. Image of Nick and Chris, smiling, on tailgate of truck behind a mass of paper bags full of pears. At the USDA pear repository. Quote tweet: 2/ Two days ago, our fall research took us to another vast fruit collection central to our decades-long effort identifying 'future heirlooms' - the USDA pear repository in Corvallis, OR, home to ca. 1,000 named pear varieties. Then, with friends, a tasting. Photos of a pile of pears. Second photo, a handwritten map naming the varieties in the pile.
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Copy of tweet here: 2/ We've also spent a decade researching barely-known varieties of winter-pears at one of the world's largest and most diverse pear collections. Today, we gathered fruit from more than a hundred key candidates to track over forthcoming months. We know of no one else at such work. Image of Nick and Chris, smiling, on tailgate of truck behind a mass of paper bags full of pears. At the USDA pear repository. Quote tweet: 2/ Two days ago, our fall research took us to another vast fruit collection central to our decades-long effort identifying 'future heirlooms' - the USDA pear repository in Corvallis, OR, home to ca. 1,000 named pear varieties. Then, with friends, a tasting. Photos of a pile of pears. Second photo, a handwritten map naming the varieties in the pile.

Photo of volunteers collecting scion wood (for propagation) standing and smiling in front of the USDA pear repository sign marking the entrance to the pear collection itself. Buckets full of collected scion, on the ground, in front of them.
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Photo of volunteers collecting scion wood (for propagation) standing and smiling in front of the USDA pear repository sign marking the entrance to the pear collection itself. Buckets full of collected scion, on the ground, in front of them.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RichardRohrOFM By the by, Nabhan’s voice and work have long placed him at the forefront of the global conversation on agroecology and biocultural restoration. Few demonstrate so clearly that Incarnation is ultimately an eco-social covenant—context, flow and truth woven in an _inhabited_ praxis.Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM By the by, Nabhan’s voice and work have long placed him at the forefront of the global conversation on agroecology and biocultural restoration. Few demonstrate so clearly that Incarnation is ultimately an eco-social covenant—context, flow and truth woven in an _inhabited_ praxis.