... and asked me if we could meet in her garden. The lush, sunshine-filled garden was an unexpected enclave of peace and beauty among the tall brick buildings. I could still hear street traffic, but the cars felt far away. My body relaxed as we sat at a table in the center of the garden. Bright orange...

... as a recompense, as a boy gets, Einstein, Marx, Freud, etc. The Jewess is a constant gardener of her backyard plot. Now she is running inside, half-cracked, menaced not by bees but recollection. The sky was illuminated gray and is darkening fast. Hours pass. Now she is ginned up and running back...

... to envision a healthier and more collaborative social-justice movement by reaching for what feels right and human. While we might not use agricultural language, our guiding metaphor can be to work as gardeners, rather than factory foremen. This approach still feels radical, new, countercultural. We still...

... for this garden in collaboration w ith BUSTAN, an environm ental ju stice organization fo­ cused on sustainable developm ent and fair...

... to be intimate with this world so that all life can participate in the love that God is and that sustains the universe. It all begins in a garden where God is presented as the Essential Gardener who holds soil so close as to kiss it and breathe into it the life that creates people, plants, and animals. The first...

...- centered forms of Christianity, we decided to explore this ancient vision of paradise to illuminate the struggles and possibilities in our own time. Many scriptures picture a lush garden, a safe...

... SPEECHES FROM THE NSP CONFERENCE FROM THE SPEECHES NSP FLICKRCC/CHARLES FRED TIKKUN 6 6 the garden and hum an beings having responsibility for the the for responsibility having beings garden. an hum and garden the nar­...

...Trade deregulation has let transnational corporations run wild. Community gardens and farmers markets offer a glimpse of an alternative system. Will Occupy open new paths to economic localization? ...

... One form her.” W hat counts as settling hum an needs are also expressed as rights: in the world, with all the criminal negli­ and what counts as waste can be debated, a person has a right to be freed from slav­ gence of the United States in Iraq and all but going from being the site of gardens...

...Creative Commons/ National Museum of Western Art/Giorgio Vasari The Garden of Gethsemane by Giorgio Vasari. ...

..., dishes and antennae— and jumbled, over-heated gardens snarl in disuse. From this far away the occasional bird blackens in silhouette, little rabbi. From this far away a rabbinate of birds swoops above the alleys below, a gulp of swallows. The trees evangelize the season, the light clear as sick...

.... Many people want to use renewable energy yet cannot because they rent property or do not own buildings where a solar array can effectively generate energy. In 2013, Minnesota developed a “community solar gardens” program that allows utility customers to purchase shares of local solar photovoltaic...

... into that conversation is about living water. present: the Apocalypse, or the Book of Revelation. It’s a vision of Now, if I were abetter preacher than I am, I could go to town with a garden city: the cities of humanity are fused with the original this. I could talk about how she wanted to talk about mountains...

... is stealing food, they must really need it. She recalls a time when the AFSC program was housed in the basement of the Quaker meetinghouse in Albuquerque. It was 2008 and times were hard. In exchange for having the rent waived, they planted a garden. One day, they went out in the garden and found a man...

... settings that allow for unstructured play and hands-on experience (getting muddy is more appealing than a restrained walk on a trail). Remember, dirt washes off. If it is an option for you, consider starting a garden in your yard or patio or involve yourself and your child in a community garden...

....” So we must learn to embrace the experience of belonging to a larger reality that transcends our limited selves. And if we could “see the entire earth as a garden—as a living but damaged paradise, worthy of love and admiration—we could then act as gardeners, working in collaboration with the soul...