Back to the Garden

We must all tend our own gardens

On August 7, 2025, we look back to 1969 and CSNY playing Joni Mitchell’s tune.

So, how do we get back to the Garden? Here in the Bunker on S Street, I consider this.

The Bunker Philosopher contemplates Gardening while sitting with Eris, the goddess of chaos and the scribe in the Bunker.

I don’t know entirely how it will go but I do know that we are here now - miraculous creatures, joined together and carrying forward, even if we don’t feel that way. Our technology can make us feel isolated. Let me give you an example from “real life” that I experienced today.

I was sitting in the Dupont Coffee Collective on Q Street NW, looking out onto the sidewalk when about 8 people who I have known for some years now came by and set up just outside of the window from which I was observing them. We were inches apart. It took a while before they acknowledged my presence. I found this interesting.

I’m grateful to know that I will never have to worry about being a “people pleaser” as my wife likes to remind me. I take a certain degree of pleasure in this. Back in my Pittsburgh years, I entered into the orbit of Lewis Nordan, known as Buddy by just about everybody. A writer of some talent, a scholar of Shakespeare, and a genuine nut, Buddy left behind a small snippet of his experience which I’ll share with you now:

Now, Buddy apparently did love to please people, but he had this other thing going, something that I believe we all need to cultivate to hold our centers and that is, he wrote “for his best Self, with doors shut to everyone else.” He served a kind of “loving-kindness” within.

To me, what Buddy is talking about might be best termed the “Other Self” - it is not higher or lower but just “Other” and this is a concept of which Napoleon Hill also spoke. Hill attributed the concept to Andrew Carnegie. That’s another matter for another time, however, it seems to fit with my own experience of things. Within me, there is that which takes down everything I think and feel and feeling in particular is vital. Why? Well, it carries energy into the universe which speaks more loudly than any words I can muster. It sweeps all before it, in fact. It becomes my reality.

Now, I could go on. I often do. However, for now, let me remind myself and anyone reading me that we are all in this together. We are all on the Chain Gang:

Finally, let’s look more deeply into what Neville Goddard has to say

I have the feeling that I ought to follow the lead of my friend in Colorado, Annie, who is many things. She was a bright spot in my life in Pittsburgh between 1998 and 2000.

She tipped me off to a program with which she was once involved that is available online and I believe it may be time to get a credential like this: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/5012680/4AB806AB13789089D60BA458F65CF8EF?partnerref=HBF - So I put this out there. There are quite a few days before the event, so I’m going to do some networking, starting with this post.

What do you all think? Perspectives? Experience? I’m all eyes.

As always, if you want to talk to me or text - 757-332-4044 is the number. Leave a voice mail if I don’t pick up. Make it clear who you are because I have a tendency to block and report unsolicited outreach!

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