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21/ Hence Nund Rishi, a farmer himself, called for action, not abstraction. Sahaja was incarnation, the eschaton practiced at ground level. Social concerns trumped religious preoccupations. Paradise was practiced in the vernacular of addressing hunger. Justice was handmade. [Photograph of Facebook post, image of Nick sitting with Ann at an Agrarian Sharing Network propagation fair in Cottage Grove, OR, and text] Agrarian Sharing Network Nick Routledge  I’m feeling deeply fed by yesterday’s prop fair in Cottage Grove, not least by the lovely surprise of grafting trees with Ann B, who  came to the fair to pick up trees on behalf of the Cottage Village, a new, permanent tiny-home, ‘eco-village’ for low-income residents she now calls home. This project has been established by ‘Grovers’ seeking practical, grounded, humane, permanent solutions to homelessness in their community. I was greatly struck by the quality of the scion choices, and conversation,Ann brought to the grafting table - traits I repeatedly and refreshingly encounter among low-income folks settling such communities, it seems. Frankly, her perspicacity, intelligence and no-nonsense clarity about the nature and significance of things, echo a soul wisdom I commonly encounter among low-income folk; and the coherence of the type of support she’s clearly receiving from supporters better-placed to lend a helping hand with regenerative-design fundamentals. On that note, ASN’s Kari Johnson has been directly involved in helping folks get to grips with food security integration at the nascent eco-village. Her sharing shows. Yup, it rarely gets better than grafting world-class material for a worthy ambassador to an eco-social design project so clearly representing the finest that visionary, civil society has to offer. Nice one, team. 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. [Image of smiling Agrarian Sharing Network volunteers standing in front of the entrance sign to the USDA Pear repository in Corvallis, OR.]