Requirements of the cheerful order

the refrain ends with:

turn around right.

Towards what?

Returning -

to the truth.

Truth: live on a finite planet carrying finite beings.

Truth: to survive, much less thrive,

in a changing climate is to transform

production consumption governance

the house i call home.

Justice.

Foxes warning: ‘keep your testimony against the world’s vast fashions.’

be plain.

Not 'fashionable' ‘green’ -

talk like leaves that easily blown away

Fashion: easy. – easy food, easy relationships, easy work.

Easy come – and easy go.

Where is the nourishment? the ground?

that which is most - profound?

The meal:

cornbread, homemade

a fresh tomato-and-avocado salad - red and green and

lightly salted.

dahl, smooth and rich and properly spiced.

a mushroom risotto, homemade chutney, yams with rice, local cheese, local apples and grapes. And extra rosemary.

Rightly ordered?

Is your stew prepared

to save you from those binges of packaged meals?

Is your week planned

around the local shops and farmers markets?

Is your advocacy geared

towards the right order of the planet

for substantially more enjoyable and delicious eating?

ah, the radicalness of simple joy!

Awash in the nightmares of climate change, despair is easy to come by – and not to be avoided. Only in facing that despair do we risk any hope of coming into the next opening.

Alignment: no sugar. no caffeine. no booze.

Alignment: good work, paid. more joy.

self-discovery: tantamount to the practice of simplicity.

Alignment: essence mirroring essence.

refrain from all that leads to scattered thoughts, diluted meaning and the slow painful reduction into mediocre lives.

I crave good order

The ‘essence’ of Spirit I seek remains clouded.

so much daily footwork

just to clear the windows – even to

lift

the shades. I

seem unable to discern

alone.

Our meal

seasoned well with those

occaisional, spontaneous moments of silence.

Then, I knew we were traversing

further afield than the limits of our physical selves.

in turning towards the truth of the limits to growth,

we turn towards the truth of the limitlessness

depth

of fellowship

that continually, collectively delving deeper

into our own essences can bring us.