If this is your kind of thinking, my book was just released last week. You can order a signed copy here. I'm also having a book launch on 9/30 at 2pm, complete with prize raffle (seeds, plants, books, tools, local goods). Here's the Facebook event page. The book launch is in the Hardin Hall auditorium on UNL's east campus and will include a one hour presentation based on the writing. Come party with me!
When we are pushed to think in a new way, from a new perspective that challenges our world view or concept of self, we feel defensive. We feel as if we are being judged or criticized. We feel shamed, guilted, talked down to. This natural response may in some ways be tied to the burgeoning realization that we've broken personal or cultural ethical codes and are being asked to think critically about why and how, as well as the ramifications of our thinking and acting. When I ask what other species some plant supports, what value it brings beyond aesthetic function to humans, I'm not telling you to screw off and that you blow chunks. I'm asking a question meant to draw you out of a single perspective, out of human supremacism, and out of an assumption of power and freedom. I'm asking you to connect to the world in what is now an almost foreign way -- through the other. I'm asking you so much, and certainly too much, as our ethics have not evolved nearly as fast as our ability to induce climate change and mass extinction. I'm asking you what love really is, who we are as a species or culture, and if you will dare to be empowered enough to fight for the equality of all of us.
If this is your kind of thinking, my book was just released last week. You can order a signed copy here. I'm also having a book launch on 9/30 at 2pm, complete with prize raffle (seeds, plants, books, tools, local goods). Here's the Facebook event page. The book launch is in the Hardin Hall auditorium on UNL's east campus and will include a one hour presentation based on the writing. Come party with me! 11/6/2019 10:24:52 pm
The plants that we can find in the world are all living things and they should be handled with care and love so that they may live for a long period of time. Time is the most precious gift that we can give so let us buy the book that is posted here and try to read the content of it so that we may able to see what is the most helpful tip that will help us to grow the plants that we have in our home. Plants will help the environment to have a clean air that we can use. Comments are closed.
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