A season of celebrations, lament, transitions, and a sabbatical that gave me a taste of what a balance between productivity and play could feel like.
I've been learning that perhaps, rest doesn't require complete inertia. When a farmer lets their land lie fallow, doesn't the land itself take on the activities it needs to repair and regenerate itself? In the still season, when cultivation pauses, the land replenishes itself with carbon and nitrogen and invites earthworms to wriggle around and prepare the humus to birth new life in the next. These are the activities that restore life and re-energize, done in resistance to the violent pace of the surrounding culture. It's a sabbath that doesn't permit the freneticism of the world but prioritizes life-giving, joyful practices that encourage delight and wonder, community and connectedness, feasting and worship. "We think the food comes from the harvest, but there is also food in the fallow ground" (Joel Ramshaw).
"Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology. It's the audacity to face the demands of this world and proclaim, We will not be owned... Remember. You were never meant to prove your dignity. You, whose flesh contains more bodies than your own. You don't belong in the catacombs of restlessness, wandering from death to death. Lie down with me in the pasture, where life is alive and growing with the unapologetic slowness of a blade of grass."
- Cole Arthur Riley (This Here Flesh) -
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