Judith Browning

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine.
And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant,
more passionate than "politicians" think.
We have to be there at the birth of ideas,
the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them,
but in events manifesting this force,
in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.
Ideas do not rule the world.
But it is because the world has ideas
(and because it constantly produces them)
that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders
or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

Michel Foucault
15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984)
a French philosopher, literary critic,
and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships
between power, knowledge, and liberty,
and how they are used as a form of social control through institutions.

I think I got it ..

yes, I just got an email for 'judith'

I:ll try to do a screen shot.
I am using desktop on my phone if that makes a difference?

Nicole Alderman wrote:

Lawren Richards wrote:Adding an addendum later: I went to the link and searched everywhere on the menu & under my profile but cannot see an option to add my own watch phrases? I just see the threads I've posted in. No section for adding watch phrases.

Interesting! Maybe "watch phrases" is a PIE perk? I think you now have 20 apples, which should cause you to get a free slice of pie. Do you now have access to watch phrases?

It's under 'my bookmarks and watches' in the drop down menu for your profile.
I couldn't find it either and I knew I had mine set for 'judith'.

I looked through edit profile over and over first,as I was sure that's where it was.

Please be aware that there are sometimes spammers who PM us privately in a friendly way in order to open the 'door' to more communication.

If it is someone who has never posted here publicly and is relatively new to join I am automatically suspicious when it is a non specific friendly private message...and sometimes report to staff.

When we make mindful,
loving, and peaceful steps,
we do it not just
for our own healing and nourishment
but for Mother Earth,
for our parents, our ancestors,
and all beings.

Sister Tue Nghiem
(Buddhist nun, psychologist, neuroscientist)

Blessed are you
who bear the light
in unbearable times,
who testify
to its endurance
amid the unendurable,
who bear witness
to its persistence
when everything seems
in shadow
and grief.
Blessed are you
in whom
the light lives,
in whom
the brightness blazes—
your heart
a chapel,
an altar where
in the deepest night
can be seen
the fire that
shines forth in you
in unaccountable faith
in stubborn hope
in love that illumines
every broken thing
it finds.

Jan Richardson
(1967 to pres., artist, writer,
minister in The United Methodist Church)

Without music no discipline can be perfect,
for there is nothing without it.
For the very universe is held together
by a certain harmony of sounds,
and the heavens themselves are made to revolve
by the modulation of harmony.
Music moves the feelings and changes the emotions.
Every word we speak, every pulsation in our veins,
is related by musical rhythms
to the powers of harmony.

Isadore of Seville
(?? To 636, Roman scholar, theologian, archbishop of Seville)

I didn't get any thing done towards topping the pergola with bamboo but I did encourage things that were already growing there to climb....virginia creeper and passionflower tried their best.
I'm always amazed how passion flower just keeps blooming and bearing fruit all summer into fall with no extra water other than rain.

There was a good chance of rain today but I watered my seed beds anyway...good germination if I water twice a day every day🙄

We are gradually digging sweet potatoes and peanuts...both disappointing harvests so far.

I doubt we grow peanuts again...they were not happy in our clay soil.
I'm determined to grow sweet potatoes though.
I think the ones in the garden bed did better than last year...still small and they were mostly purples....other years have had very large ones.
The orange ones, I grew most in tubs so I would be sure to have some good ones to grow slips from next year but they are smaller than usual and have scurf.

I hate to lose either variety but won't use the tubs again for them (because of scurf) and need to get some fertility back in the garden soil before next season....wood ashes helped but not enough..

Still getting several long beans a day....will definitely grow more next year on our two hoop houses that we don't cover with plastic anymore, just, sometimes shadecloth.

nice young chicory leaves and soon some thinnings of kale, turnip, mustard and arugula....have not got the beds ready for transplants....these were sown directly.

Time to see if the sunchokes made...some years the grubs leave us a few to ferment.

It's that time of year where spider webs are everywhere....this one is in a spot we sit regularly on the front porch and almost everyday I walk into it...then she patiently restrings everything by the next day😊

Still dry but according to this map we are in an oasis of ' not a drought' just 'very dry'.