The Million-Petaled Flower of Being Here (audio version)

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The Million-Petaled Flower of Being Here (audio version)

Nurturers of the Real #7

Graham Pardun

Jun 26, 2024

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The Million-Petaled Flower of Being Here

Graham Pardun

Jun 26

The Million-Petaled Flower of Being Here

This is the seventh and second-to-last part of an essay series which takes as its inspiration something Wendell Berry said in The Unsettling of America: “Over and over again, spring after spring, the questing mind, idealist and visionary, must pass through the planting to become nurturer of the real.” Resounding in the background, too, as if across an empty canyon where our hearts used to be, is Vine Deloria's rhetorical question to the sunset of the West: “Can the white man's religion make one final effort to be real?”

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