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My mind has been on the words featured on this button for a while. There’s a distance we have put between ourselves and the earth. At about the same time that the Space Program took off and rocketed to the Moon, we forgot how to tend the earth. We lived in our new homes as if they were spaceships, drinking Tang as if we were cut off from all ability to make our own food any more.  Now, two or three generations later, most of us don’t know how to make food any more.  We might know how to cook it, though we’re losing that knowledge too, but to cook is to prepare food, not to make it. Mohandas K. Gandhi said, “To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.”  Walking so free from planet Earth, what have we become, and what will we do if our space gazing civilization stumbles?

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