Discuss: Notes from a Very Small Island

An extraordinary piece of thought and writing. Throughly enjoyed it. “I greet you at the beginning of a great career, which must yet have had a long foreground somewhere, for such a start.”

I agree that this is an extraordinary piece.  I just returned from Italy and have been caught between worlds, caught between place and time, and you anchor it beautifully for me.  You so softly and gently present the information we need to live in this world and change it, knowing and honoring each precious breath as seed.  Thank you!

Well, I had a productive day planned. Then I read this beautiful piece, and now I’m headed to a local stream to read, reflect and wonder.

Ah, yes, I will do the same.  We will both paddle with a J that holds a deeper truth of what productivity means in transforming a day.

Magnificent - if only everyone would read, understand, and act accordingly.

Wonderful piece. Thank you for the offering and description of Logos and of ethos and the lake, and the tie to the author’s personal story.
Being steeped in the ‘emptiness’ of nature is so (ful)filling?
Tim Siegel Friends Wilderness Center, Harper Ferry, WV

Stunning! Thank your for this remarkable effort. The notion of relationship- what separates meaning from nothingness, love and loneliness- must return to us as a primary epistemological construct.  Leopold extended this notion to the land. So beautifully woven- Heraclitus to the present-in a view of the world and our participation in it so fundamentally at odds with the atomistic Platonic view, Descartes etc. Bush’s final acts of degradation/deregulation are based upon the notion that human beings are lords and conquerors, not participants in relationship with the land or each other.

So far there are eight of us who admire the piece.  I’ve sent it to all my Republican acquaintances (there are two); but how will we make space in enough hearts for this thinking of Being to do its work? Who are those who can read it and hear it?