Judith Browning

This is what it means to be resilient:
to mourn a thousand endings
and celebrate a thousand beginnings,
to be as strong as steel
and as soft as warm butter,
to practice both resilience
and acceptance,
to cradle both life and death
in our arms.

Ethan Tapper
(1989 to pres., forester, author, musician)

Call out to the whole divine night
for what you love.
What you stand for.
Earn your name.
Be kind, and wild,
and disciplined,
and absolutely generous.

Martin Shaw
(1971 to pres., storyteller, mythologist, author, theologian)

We are not isolated individuals.
We are cells in the body of humanity,
and what we do to one another
we do to ourselves.
The new story is one of interdependence,
shared purpose,
and sacred relationship with all Life.

Nancy Roof
(1929-2025, editor, spiritual teacher, human unity activist,
Founder of Kosmos Journal)

Nature shrinks as capital grows.
The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Vandana Shiva
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (2008)

Around the world, people are realizing the current path will lead only to disaster, and they’re beginning to ask the hard questions about what to do next.
We humans now have the knowledge and technology to move beyond the violence, fear, and daily struggle for survival that besets the lives of so many.
We have the capacity to secure a world of peace, beauty, diversity, creativity, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all people, and have all that in balance with Earth’s ecosystems.
Achieving such a goal requires that we make this vision our common goal and transform our cultural narratives, institutions, and infrastructure accordingly—a steep but imperative challenge.
Success requires leadership from all levels of society, including from people everywhere working to grow community-facilitating cultural values, institutions, and infrastructure in the places where they live.

David Korten
Why I Have Hope in the Face of Human Extinction (1 November 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten

The ideology of development has implied the globalization of the priorities,
patterns, and prejudices of the West.
Instead of self-generated, development is imposed.
Instead of coming from within, it is externally guided.
Instead of contributing to the maintenance of diversity,
development has created homogeneity...

Vandana Shiva
Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology (1993)

good information Jackson!
thanks for the link.
I need to spend some time studying leaves and stems.
...and I'm pretty sure I've got seed set now so maybe can differentiate those from the sterile ones that look exactly the same.

The one with a clumping growth habit has always been pale pink though...will look at it more closely.

The others I consider a sprawling growth habit..there's probably another more appropriate term?


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thank you for the laugh Hugo😊

I think you'r right where only the seeded one would be a mistake to sell.

I never understood the 'Bockings' and especially the numbers...all hybrids bred by 'somebody'?

If I manage to get it together to try sell some I might just leave them at numbered types 1, 2, 3 or 4 as pictured here....

thank you Jackson!
I never knew anything about that variety.

and yes! blue flowers are great....I always called these an 'electric blue'...and it's the earliest to bloom.

In choosing our story, we not only cast our vote of influence over the kind of world future generations inherit, but we also affect our own lives in the here and now.
When we find a good story and fully give ourselves to it, that story can act through us, breathing new life into everything we do.
When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.
A great story and a satisfying life share a vital element: a compelling plot that moves toward meaningful goals, where what is at stake is far larger than our personal gains and losses.

Joanna Macy
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy