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Matthew David Segall's avatar

Lovely (and true and good) reflections here, Jonathan. My favorite notion is actually in your first note: “epistemic proprioception.” It suggests knowing how to dance through the catacomb of ideas with proper pacing and care, not necessarily knowing everything but knowing enough to get where you’d like to go without knocking over and breaking anything.

On the three transcendentals, I cannot help on this Easter Sunday but to notice the analogical resonance with the Paschal Triduum. Friday is the True, the inevitable suffering that comes with finite embodied life. Saturday is the Beautiful, the pregnant silence between darkness and first light. Sunday is the Good, the overflowing revelation of the nature of the anthropocosmos.

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Eve Tandoi's avatar

Thank you, I really enjoyed this post. It got me thinking about Robin Wall Kimmerer’s story of The Three Sisters in her book Braiding Sweetgrass.

Drawing on indigenous wisdom and botany, she relates the tale and then shows how it explains the reciprocal relationships between companion plants: beans, corn and squash that are traditionally planted together and eaten together. From here she expands to consider familial relationships and broader societal values that intertwine and are mutually beneficial.

I love the way that as she explains, she models so that her storytelling combines truth, beauty and goodness.

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