#99 - Photos return!

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My poor poor peashoots - i brought them in this morning


We are gonna have lots of cherries this year


No sign of life from other seeds we planted...


For the first time in years we have a beautiful Easter morning. Warm with plenty of sunshine and flowers everywhere. The camera I have now sorted and for the first time in ages I feel - good again. I am restored.

Everything is possible once more and after months of trudging in the darkness, well, here we are. Time has passed. The revolutions have stopped.

I am rereading some Steiner texts and know that he was considered incredible for his time because of his detailed knowledge of mythology. Some of his thinking is seriously weird. I admire people who have made him the subject of their life study, but I think reading back and engaging with his writings and suggestions, I also think that he was very much a man if his time.

I am currently reading The Social Issue... or something like that in which he looks at the risk of societies being governed solely along the lines of economic principles. Socialism comes under particular fire - he really REALLY hates it. Possibly because it really DOES put economics front and centre of everything. Economics determines how everything is governed. Steiner says the social contract is not making economics the prime mover - in this he was right. Also he was right by saying we need to determine relationships and what we want for individuals BEFORE we decide culture and economics. In that he was absolutely right.

Where do we want to be, who are we and that then determines how we get there. Not the other way round which is what we have now - capitalism v socialism.

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