b'Agriculturally, culturally, gastronomically, nutritionally, conversation-ally, aesthetically, cooperatively, traditionally, informally and with a certain celebratory gumption, we can get down to. . .get down to. . .not to business, but to someplace deeper than that, more common sensical and more neighborly than that. Down to the soil. The soil of our inten-tion. The soil of civility. And the actual soil, teeming with life (still!). Often the biggest changes in history, writes historian Niall Ferguson in The Square and the Tower, are the achievements of thinly docu-mented, informally organized groups of people.A word on the design of this notebook. It contains a decades-worth of notes and ruminations, culled and curated. It is not a specific response to the particulars of the public health and social justice crises of the last several months, but it is very much a response to systemic roots of these crises. It is becoming more obvious with each cultural, ecological and economic convulsion: The worldview that got us to the New World is not the worldview that will allow us to care adequately for one another, the places where we live and our planetary home in the years ahead.Ive arranged and rearranged selected notes and ruminations, looking for places where anecdote and practice reach downwards towards root and outwards towards pattern. Part I AHA! muses about the possibility of a species-level awakening.Part IIMYTHsuggests that our economic view of the world isriddled with myth, ancient and modern.25'