Millions are unsuccessfully looking for jobs, our climate is warming faster than the scientists’ worst-case scenarios and now we also have a swine flu epidemic. Ai-yai-yai. All of those are important, but today I’m drilling down deeper into a universal constant in all our lives: the food that keeps us alive.
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Entries Tagged as 'earth'
The Sexiness Of Spring
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · food & drink, home & garden, nature, simplicity, sustainability
Happy Hybrid Easter!
March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · home & garden, nature, spirituality & religion, sustainability
Hybrid: a result of cross-breeding. Easter: a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Christ — celebrated the Sunday following the first full moon of the vernal equinox.
Wait a minute. Easter is famously Christian, but its timing is completely earth-centered, ruled by nature, which is to say it is pagan. Easter is a hybrid holiday. Christianity has been shown by scholars to have deep roots in the earlier earth-centered religions
Tags: Christ·earth·Easter·equinox·hybrid·life·rebirth·religion·resurrection
