Gardening Points the Way
There is a surfeit of information in our computer age – with literally nothing you want to know hidden from you. However, what all this information does not do is give us the wisdom to know what to do.
And in that my friends we are sorely lacking in our society – we have a surfeit of information and a deficit of wisdom.
Because we can doesn’t mean we should.
It would seem our values took a sharp turn for the worse – likely several hundreds or thousands of years ago – when we decided it was OK for one group of people to take more out of the commons than others. When that group (insert your favorite bad-guy here – males, females, politicians, royalty, them…) decided to protect their newly gained share with weapons and violence of physical or emotional nature, the balance shifted.
When somebody has more and somebody has less and that is codified and built into the system and defended by public policy, e.g. apartheid, taxation military action, there will be winners and losers.
Which is fine if you’re a winner. But…
We in North America and most of Europe are winners. Some are “super-winners” able to set the rules to keep them and theirs as winners because they control this “public policy”.
For every winner – there is a loser without a commons.
Now. A garden is a great equalizer.
A seed doesn’t discriminate between rich and poor. A wealth of beautiful love doesn’t decide who to share itself with – if you can see, smell, or touch, you can share.
A garden of beauty and grace can live as equally in a humble house as a mansion. Cottage gardens began as those of the poorest but are now adopted by the richest.
Dirt under the nails is no indication of social status or wealth of the gardener. And in the garden, money doesn’t imply knowledge or the ability to grow plants.
Gardeners share and have shared their bounty in the way of seeds for centuries.
We as a family of man have lost our way but maybe, just maybe some directions lie in our garden.
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