Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson Share Wisdom

Do We Feel Gratitude, Respect and Affection for Land, for Earth?

   What are the possibilites and limitations of this particular land?
    How can we nurture and share the land?
    What must not be done to the land?
    What happens when people are deprived of land and the fruits of  land?
    Whom and what do we really value?
    Will we enhance Earth for present and future inhabitants or ignore conditions/policies that
    will  weaken Earth  resulting in a weaker Economy, boring underemployment and widespread
    Homelessness?
    Will we learn from Wendell Berry: teacher, writer and farmer who shares words of Wisdom
     showing affection for land, for Earth, for our Home?
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Do We Want to Help the Earth?

Have we asked the land how it flourished in the past and how it would like to flourish in the future for the common good?  Have we listened to the wisdom of the family farmer who respects the land and works with it? (Note: Wendell Berry).  Have we deeply listened to our bioregions, mountains, valleys, meadows, plains, deserts, forests, trees, grass, flowers, brooks, lakes, falls, oceans, animals, insects, etc.  What might the sun, moon, stars, rain, snow, wind and storms be telling us?

[VIDEO] Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen!

[VIDEO] Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen!

This video applies to our Journey wherever our location, status, career, vocation, clergy, laity or religious. The message of being helpful with common sense of treating others with respect, the way we want to be treated:  first of all, listening.  Ernesto Sirolli's presentation reminds me of when I was teaching at a seminary in Zambia.  Strolling through the compound, I asked some of the women how we might assist one another?  A few weeks later they told me that the most helpful thing for them would be a sewing machine ( something that never occurred to me).  We were able to get a few machines, a teacher and establish a Sewing Club that lifted their spirits, developed their creative skills and benefitted the whole family.  Their sacrifice and eagerness to learn and to share remain a great inspiration, as some walked even miles in the hot sun with their babies on their backs and taught me about their culture.  We all can contribute to building our interdependent Earth Community.
COMMENT:  How does this video challenge society and/or you?

To Whom or What Do Our Lives Pledge Allegiance?

Do our lives on our Journey pledge allegiance to the "Almighty Dollar"?   Transnational corporations?  My country right or wrong?  My political "loyalties" right or wrong?  My race? My gender?  My limitless freedom without responsibility?  Or do our lives on our Journey pledge allegiance to the best ideals of our country and beyond to Solidarity, to the Common Good, the well-being of all, to a consistent life ethic, to freedom with responsibility to do good, to treat all of our neighbors (human and non-human) as we would like to be treated, to build a culture of Life, not of Death, to build our one interdependent Earth Community as we Journey together?

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