It's been a while since I've posted here, and it's mostly because I've been chasing a train of thought in my free time. It's a runaway train that hasn't wanted to be caught and may take a long time to board and explore.
In a nutshell, however, the idea is simple:
Our lives, our families and our work are a garden. We must tend them all with care.
Though simple, this idea is also huge. It spins on it's head a lot of the vocabulary, processes and structures that have been put in place to define and capture our lives. In many ways we live in a proto-industrial age. We've not split from the 19th Century sweatshops and assembly lines. We've simply sped it all up.
Look at public schools. Students are shuttled from one class to the next, one subject to the next, down the assembly line of educational stimuli. And they're tested at thousands of stops. Yet, everyone seems to agree that they're not being taught well (especially in Texas from what I see and read).
Yet no one questions the process as a whole. They merely question the output.
We must rethink it all.
We must realize that gardening is more than gardening.
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