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ALDO ZONE ARCHIVES<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Convince me you have a seed, & I am prepared to expect wonders.” \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Henry David Thoreau (Faith in a Seed<\/em>)<\/p>\n

* Seeds of Thought #1-10… <\/em>(Voz del Refugio <\/em>columns, Feb. 2011-Sept. 2013).<\/p>\n

Seeds of Thought (#1), Beginning Again (Feb 2011)<\/p>\n

Seeds 2 The Life of the Seed (May 2011)<\/p>\n

Seeds 3 Form & Wonder (Sept 2011)<\/p>\n

Seeds 4 Winter Feeding (Dec 2011)<\/p>\n

Seeds 5 Love of wildlife (Feb 2012)<\/p>\n

Seeds 6 Life in motion (June 2012)<\/p>\n

Seeds 7 With trajectories high and low (Sept 2012)<\/p>\n

Seeds 8 Countng our blessings (Dec 2012)<\/p>\n

Seeds #9 Expanding our focus\u00a0(March 2013)<\/p>\n

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#\u00a0\u201cExpanding Our Focus\u201d (where Seeds #9 left off):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Seeds of Thought (#9) article (“Expanding Our Focus”) just came out, and of course\u00a0the picture that appears with it\u00a0is hardly\u00a0a shadow of the original, as expressed in either\u00a0on-line versions or\u00a0Susan’s printing. (In addition\u00a0 her\u00a0 copyright notice &\u00a0website address\u00a0dropped out of the caption provided.) No harm done if you have come this far. We knew we couldn’t do\u00a0the photo justice in our\u00a0low-budget\u00a0format anyway. The images\u00a0carry\u00a0much more oomph on-line, starting with Sp<\/strong>iney Images<\/strong> (from “Spineless”) in Some photo-inspired thoughts\u00a0(in this case on Susan Middleton, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Frank Richardson, Tony Angell…).<\/p>\n

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Seeds 10: Expanding the conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeds10 Expanding the conversation (June2013)<\/p>\n

To expand the conversation where Seeds\u00a0#10 left off<\/em><\/strong>, i.e.,\u00a0considering how\u00a0work, play, learning & serving\u00a0inform each other:<\/p>\n

Rebecca Solnit, in a recent issue of Orion (nature\/culture\/place)<\/em>, writes that Thoreau believed “Great thoughts hallow any labor,”\u00a0having made a “good bargain” in getting paid for shoveling manure.<\/p>\n

“He worked quite hard…though he also played around with the idea of work, appointing himself inspector of snowstorms and proposing his employment could be watching the seasons, which he did with such precision, describing what bloomed when and which bird species arrived on what date in his corner of Massachusetts, that his journals have been used to chart climate change in the present. We call that work, which was so clearly a pleasure to him, science<\/em>.” (–“Mysteries of Thoreau Unsolved,” Orion<\/em>, May-June 2013.)<\/p>\n

Some work goes on producing dividends, interest &\/or royalties long after the doing, in other words. Some work is\u00a0never done. Sometimes these are the same work–each today brings yesterday’s harvest even as we cultivate\u00a0tomorrow’s. In nature’s continuing creation, we can hardly tell past,\u00a0present\u00a0and future apart, being so\u00a0intricately webbed, networked, looped\u00a0& layered with creatures, relations & exchange at countless scales.<\/p>\n

To see & know what is now<\/em> we try to unravel the past that made it so, & goes on making it, being in some senses still present, deeply involved in\u00a0current formation,\u00a0form, & shaped nature. How else do we understand anything, but in terms of such relations through time? We know things, including ourselves, partly by their pasts, the histories that shaped them.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0a tree’s current shape reveals its past, from\u00a0inner seed-form to prevailing winds, both still present in its branching, as its\u00a0 annual rainfall\u00a0history\u00a0is present in its rings. We know things, including ourselves also by direct experience of them now<\/em>, therefore, subject to modes of paying attention,\u00a0qualities of awareness, & levels of understanding. We know things also by considering\u00a0what they might\u00a0become–even inspector of snowstorms & observer of seasons.<\/p>\n

Conventional science\u00a0suggests the past causes the present, which causes the future, but never anything vice versa, yet even\u00a0science itself is significantly future-oriented<\/em>, with its present activities shaped by prospects for future learning. The future plays\u00a0a bigger role in\u00a0present activities\u00a0than is generally recognized, though right there in front of us, like\u00a0the sense of where we’re heading, with enough adjustments back and forth between present, past & on-coming to avoid\u00a0going off-course–as trails are never straight.<\/p>\n

Even when we\u00a0not purposefully goal-oriented,\u00a0thinking about and working towards the future, dynamic time connections can still be\u00a0very much at play, as, for example, in pollination, fruiting, the egg, seed, and other “unintended” influences that nevertheless cross generations. The lack of individually conscious intentional purpose doesn’t mean that purposeful functions\u00a0aren’t served at\u00a0 higher &\/or lower scales, as with\u00a0ecologically embedded organisms,\u00a0processes, and relationships that do not\u00a0depend on parties knowing the larger meanings of–except when\u00a0threatened.<\/p>\n

The greater the level of present feedback’s\u00a0impact on\u00a0future outcomes, the more responsibility one has to understand the range, limits, and character of that impact, particularly where so many\u00a0connections and implications remain hidden.<\/p>\n

Early on, Aldo Leopold wrote that “the first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save the pieces.” In fact,\u00a0he came to realize\u00a0that saving the pieces by themselves was far from\u00a0enough, just\u00a0a starting place. More critical, we have to save the integrity of the systems that produce, sustain & connect <\/em>the pieces (including us).<\/p>\n

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