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The Tao Te Ching warns of becoming concerned with other people’s opinions, stating that getting favor often leads to complications of ego, obsession with popularity, followed by the need to perform or adjust the image to maintain favor. It is a trap that keeps one off the spiritual path, obsessed with material pursuits and endeavors that give no…[Read more]

What if a property line grew itself? No quarry, no timber crews, only a planted seed that thickens every season. A fence invites a challenge; it says there is treasure inside. A ten-foot sprawl of thorns says, “why bother,” and animals read the same message. Plant a living perimeter and you gain cover, habitat, fruit, medicine, windbreak, and a…[Read more]

Adinkra symbols, in their known form, were developed in West Africa, yet their roots reach far deeper than the cultures that now carry them. They are reflective of a symbol-stream that predates recorded history. The primary Adinkra, Gye Nyame (“One God”), is a mystery whose origins are so ancient that its first known mention, at the dawn of our…[Read more]