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Your Grief Seeds
Isn’t it odd that once upon a time in Europe a woman could be killed for making potions from the plants around her.
~ Brigit Anna McNeill
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They called our way of life primitive then created a way of life that destroys the earth in less than 200 years.
~ TM9 Legion@StreamMajor9
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A plant needs to do more than stretch its leaves toward the sun. It also needs to send down roots deep into the ground… But it is the fact that a plant can do these two things at once, anchoring itself to the earth even as it reaches for the sky, that makes it strong.
~ Cameron Dokey
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.
~ Rumi
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The emphasis nowadays on being young, on being beautiful, on the outer look, on the physical, is pathetic — based on the lack of recognition and denial that we all age. It’s natural to age. There is nothing wrong with aging. We should not feel guilty because we are looking older year by year. It’s natural. We look old, and our partner looks old. So what?
