{"id":21349,"date":"2013-07-22T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21349"},"modified":"2013-07-22T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:59:55","slug":"21349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21349","title":{"rendered":"The Land"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the First Harvests<\/p>\n

One with the land. \u00a0A cliche perhaps, though little used today. \u00a0I hope it has again some of \"\"<\/a>the powerful connotation it had long ago.<\/p>\n

On a fine cool morning like this one, not even really cool, 68, to step outside with tools in hand, tools for working with plants, and feel the morning air surround you, to see the plants green and the flowers vibrant, to step into the vegetable garden and see tomato blossoms, fruit, eggplant fruit, cucumbers vining up the bamboo, the carrot’s feathery leaves, the brave leeks tall and proud and to know, know in the biblical sense, that is, to have direct sensory knowledge unmediated by book or story, but present and available, that you and those plants share the workload. \u00a0To know further that the bees buzzing and dipping into the flowers are likewise colleagues, not just insects, but partners. \u00a0Yes, I know it’s overwritten, sorry about that, but it hits the feeling tone I want to convey. \u00a0Over the top. \u00a0Not overwhelming, maybe, but certainly whelming. \u00a0Intimate. \u00a0Holistic.<\/p>\n

It’s a feeling, come to think of it, or come to feel it might be better, that synchs up with the mystical moment I had back long ago in college. \u00a0I’ve written about it here before so just a synopsis. \u00a0After a philosophy class I experienced a sudden moment of integration with the whole, with everything, with the cosmic. \u00a0I was in it and of it, as it was in me and of me. \u00a0This feeling I have, this oneness with this land, this particular place, is a discrete yet parallel feeling. \u00a0I am in this land and of it, as it is in me and of me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moon of the First Harvests One with the land. \u00a0A cliche perhaps, though little used today. \u00a0I hope it has again some of the … Continue reading The Land<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-work","category-our-land","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21353,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21349\/revisions\/21353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}