<![CDATA[Making space sacred... - earth blog]]>Tue, 28 May 2024 22:50:57 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Words are sacred.]]>Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:00:00 GMThttp://www.makingspacesacred.com/earth-blog/words-are-sacred

Words are shapes that convey meaning. They are sacred to most human beings :

  • Certainly to the Judeo-Christian traditions: 
    "I    n the beginning was the Word, and the Word
      was with God, and the Word was God." - Genesis

  • Even non-religious folks who do not believe in theism (i.e. atheists)....or the classical conception of God...

  • Even the increasingly popular category of faith called the "Spiritual and not religious."

 If we can find the right words, we can bring a mnemonic of sacredness into our physical spaces...

However for the wordy - writers specifically - words are both universally valued and acknowledged to be inadequate to convey the mystery of the sacred (mysterium tremendum)

But they are what we got.  

With words we co-create our world.  Poets do it with words.  Gardens can too.

What are your sacred words? Would you share yours with us in the comments?
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Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete." It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence, specifically impermanence, suffering and absence of self-nature. - Wikipedia
]]><![CDATA[Biomimicry: Sharks have reinvented a wheel]]>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 02:34:20 GMThttp://www.makingspacesacred.com/earth-blog/biomimicry-sharks-have-reinvented-a-wheel
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There is a new way to love the earth. 
Study it for it's mysteries. This is not metaphysics or even eco-chaplaincy, it's biomimicry.

The idea is that nature has been testing its designs for millions of years using small steps. Innovating a little bit here and there.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it's a dead end.  The point of study is that we as humans can no longer add more fuel to make things bigger, make things go faster.  We must be smarter and design for efficiency.  Brute force no longer is sustainable.

Enter the Shark Wheel. 
The wheel is square...and developed with the idea that all things in nature are not straight.  They are waves.  These wheels are sine waves. 

Innovation and the future is not about brute force.  It is about elegant, workable designs like Earth has been testing for a long, long time.

Check out the free Amazon show:    Xploration Nature Knows Best

It's about time we are asking: WWES?   What would Earth say?
]]><![CDATA[Natives for Christ Church in Berkeley]]>Wed, 30 May 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.makingspacesacred.com/earth-blog/natives-for-a-christ-church-in-berkeleyThe corner landscape was installed in Spring of 2018.  It is flourishing...
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]]><![CDATA[Shohan and Andy's Frontyard Garden]]>Sun, 22 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.makingspacesacred.com/earth-blog/shohan-and-andys-gardenThis landscape will be installed in December 2018
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