I remember you too. Quite the garden maker as I recall. A quick glance over a group I had apparently joined revealed a great interest in growing edibles. That used to motivate me back when ornamentals were my wife’s business. Now I’m the one steering the garden with an eye toward aesthetics, but one aspiring toward celebrating nature rather than displaying the hand of man.

@MarkWD That is exactly my gardening too. That certainly looks a wonderfu;l border.

Yeah there are a lot of interviews and talks he has put out that I’ve enjoyed too. I’m almost embarrassed to admit how much I’ve been influenced. But then again because he is so reasonable and I don’t have enough mileage left on my tires to read all that he has or reconcile it all that either. I’m happy to just absorb what makes sense to me. I don’t really need it expect to understand everything.

I remember you too. From your bio looks as though we might be singing in the same choir:

“ The evidence that I’m aware of strongly suggests our species has always been, and will continue to be in the foreseeable future, a religious species, outlying individuals notwithstanding.

I think it’s not only a futile, but an unwise, hope that religion will go away. A possible, realistic hope might be to popularize a religious figuratist, as opposed to a religious literalist view.”

I never look to persuade anyone about such things. In discussion about them it is only motivated to explore overlap and understand what motivates divergences. I have no stake in seeing my current WV come out on top; I’m better off if it becomes refined where it can be.