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The article I am presenting on is "Assailed" written by David James Duncan.
David James Duncan is a father, fly fisher, conservationist, and closet mystic. Which explains why he ponders about nature in a philosophical way. He wonders about the energies of earth, humans, and the stars. How we all are connected and why this is the way it is. In a sense we are a chain, only to be seen by the universe when we are linked together. He tells us his opinions about humanity and the stars, and his astonishment on how everything is linked by energies and experiences of life.
Humanity was birthed from nothing. We can never be seen by the universe because each and everyone of us is lost within the galaxy. The sun can never be seen. Earth can never be seen. Only our galaxy that swirls around nothingness called the universe. Though we maybe considered nothing compared to our galaxy we do bare similarities. We all nurture our young. The galaxy nurtured us providing us with the necessary factors we needed to survive. The galaxy provided us with the perfect amount of light, our earth, and water that allowed us bacteria to develop. And without the galaxy the sun would not have existed. Earth would not have existed, and without earth we would not be able to survive, but earth can survive without us.
David James Duncan is a well-known mystic. He talks about energies and how other individuals perceive them. He inquires about a letter written by "Henry David Thoreau." The letter talks about a Brahma that practices the art of yoga so that the "Divine forms traverse him without tearing him apart." Though he admits he had no idea what Henry was describing here he found a connection between Thoreau and the writer De Chardin whose quote "The divine assails us, penetrates us, molds us..." These two quotes befuddle him. What would lead these two authors to create a similar quote? Why do you think that he believes that the sun and earth are nothing compared to the galaxy and universe? And what makes this universe so connected and why is it like this?
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My presentation was on “These Green Things”: The San Francisco Garden Project in the book The Future of Nature. In my article it talks about the steps that a woman named Cathy took to get a garden outside of the jail that she worked with. She eventually got permission and she started with 4 inmates coming out to help her first clean up the land so that they could start tending to the land that they had. After years of cleaning up they finally were able to start gardening. Cathy thought this would be a good idea because she was on her last leg in life and her friend gave her a book The Grapes of Wrath and in the book it said that to be really alive is to be connected to the soil and the earth. After time passed she started to see changes in the people who were there because they had the chance to make something their own and the power and warmth of the feeling of being needed for what they could produce. They started helping out with the food banks and people with Aids by donating their food that they grew. Later they ended up helping local restaurants by supplying their items that they grew. After they start expanding by helping more people out they started to expand and find more places to clean and use the land to farm and make their products there as well. To Cathy this was not just a project to her this was an outlet for people that needed someone to give them a chance and to also believe in them and support them. Cathy had big dreams for this project; she wanted people to change and when they were allowed back into society that they would change. For many this was their only option because back in society was not a good place for them and many of them wanted to stay and help with the garden or come back and help with the garden. This project became successful and became integrated with other environmental projects that they were doing in the city.
My three questions would be:
1.) Why don’t you think that this project changed the people before they went back into society like Cathy thought? Do you think that the problem lies within the society?
2.) What other options do you think that they could put in place other than gardening and computers? Why? 3.) If you were Cathy and you saw that your program did not work for all would you change it? Why or why not?
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