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[electricland]

On dirt.

Healthy soil literally lives and breathes; it's made up of decomposing matter and live organisms, from tiny bacteria to earthworms as big as your finger. Healthy soil is like a decadent poem: fevered activity, death, life, rebirth, green leaves and lovely flowers rooted in a bed of seething scatology.

A society that fails to study that poem courts extinction.

Comments

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

I like dirt. I hope we haven't ruined it.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

well, the cool thing with a living organism is that the potential is there to regenerate, and undo some of the damage we've done.

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Regenerate dirt. I guess that's better than degenerate dirt.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

very true!

apparently the reclamation of NO is very far from green. Grr...

[electricland.livejournal.com]

My grandmother always used to say "you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die".

I don't know where she got the saying from, but I suspect it was from some more robust age than ours.

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Eat a peck of dirt? Okay, I don't think I know what that means. Does this mean that when I'm on my deathbed, I'll suddenly feel the need to run outside and eat a bunch of dirt? Boy, life is complicated....

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I think it's a cumulative amount over one's lifetime, just so we don't worry quite so much about dropping cookies on the floor.

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Well that makes more sense then. I'd hate to have to snarf down a peck with my dying breath. ;)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

It's always possible that once you have ingested your peck, at whatever age, that's it for you and you will drop dead.

Hm.

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Okay, wait a sec, I'm getting conflicting info here...should I be eating dirt or not?! I don't know what to do! I think I need a life coach. Maybe a gardener.