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| The Seven Pentacles |
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Under a sky the color of pea soup
She is looking at her work growing away there
actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans
as things grow in the real world, slowly enough.
If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water,
If you provide birds that eat insects a home and winter food,
If the sun shines and you pick off caterpillars,
if the praying mantis comes and the ladybugs and the bees,
then the plants flourish, but at their own internal clock.
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
You cannot tell always by looking at what is happening.
More than half a tree is spread out in the soil under your feet.
Penetrate quietly as the earthworm that blows no trumpet.
Fight persistently as the creeper that brings down the tree.
Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden.
Gnaw in the dark and use the sun to make sugar.
Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses.
Live a life you can endure; make love that is loving.
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in,
a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside but to us
interconnected with rabbit runs and burrows and lairs.
Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen;
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting,
after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
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Miguel de Clerck |
Professionally, my work at Medecins sans Frontiers
(Doctors Without Borders) has always included the
imperative to evaluate my jobs through the criteria of
the mobilized, or the served population; the
omnipresence of ethical dilemmas; and the often
completely unfamiliar environment in which I work. It
has opened my eyes to the mechanisms that lead to
either major societal changes, or the absence of
change.
Meet
Miguel...
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PBHA is
looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual
with a strong
commitment to social justice and progressive
education to serve as their new Executive Director.
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