Twelve years

I've just realised that if I publish Small Finds now, I can do it exactly twelve years after the events portrayed in the novel; i.e twelve years after I started writing it. 

That is such a good idea. 

I'll do it

Publish and be damned

I'm seriously contemplating publishing a novel here on this web site.

Shall I?

I shall.

I'll publish Small Finds here in instalments  

Starting soon

THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN

This is a fascinating book. 

• It unpacks preconceptions about how we relate to the natural world and to each other. 

• From knowing and sharing in hunter-gatherer societies, Hugh Brody has had to re-examine our cultural myths and he explores the links between agrarian culture and our expectations and behaviour. 

THE OTHER SIDE OF EDEN HUNTER-

GATHERERS, FARMERS AND THE SHAPING OF THE WORLD

HUGH BRODY

 
First published in the United Kingdom in 2001 
Faber and Faber Limited 
ISBN 0-571-20596-8

(Blog post transferred from Aeos Random Readings; 20/06/22)

The Dawn of Everything

I've just finished reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. There is a lot to think about. The things that stick in my mind at the moment are the three basic freedoms that the two Davids derive from a study of societies at various times and in various places particularly, perhaps, the North American societies encountered by Europeans in the sixteenth / seventeenth centuries:

To walk away

To not obey (i.e. make your own choices and decisions)

To imagine new ways of doing things, in concert with other like-minded people

These three freedoms are underpinned by what you might call 'the reasonable expectation of care'

The two Davids ask the question "What went wrong?"

One of the things that went wrong was the subversion of 'the reasonable expectation of care' into something that might be called  'the divine right to be cared for'.

I need more time to think about this

God's love

Some thoughts from Pope Francis collated

https://blog.franciscanmedia.org/franciscan-spirit/choose-love-a-message-from-pope-francis?utm_campaign=Believe%20in%20Love%3A%20Inspiring%20Words%20from%20Pope%20Francis&utm_content=93743550&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-18640935

Love, despair, hope and saving the planet

Loving a vanishing world

Read this and then read it again and again

https://medium.com/@enjohnston/loving-a-vanishing-world-ace33c11fe0

Jesus, bread, wine and the earth

Forget the Catholic context for a moment (if it in any way impedes your receptivity) and just take in the wisdom here, the understanding

http://mariansolidarity.com/jesus-as-a-sign-of-his-presence-chose-bread-and-wine/