my intention is that these words, these ways I choose to live, these ways that I communicate from my place in the universe (or wherever it is that I am!) may be the flowering reflection that is the opportunity for pollination, conversation. This in turn is the unfathomable creation of seeds that will lay dormant in us all, patiently waiting germination, to sprout, grow strong and flower into culture once more.

A man named Jaime from the Andes, present day Peru, suggested last night that we empty ourselves so as to hear him, as if sitting down to a meal full, we would only eat a little, so he suggested we empty our minds so that we could eat his words and then take time to digest, to see what passes through unnoticed, and to be nourished by those seeds that find soil.

So I see this work of communication as two parts, to flower and pollinate and to be patient and observant of the seeds that find substance and germinate. May these all be for the continuation of diverse, plentiful, reproductive life!