This was such a great read! I'm ALL about ushering in a more relational way of being, and I had never before thought of fermentation as such a beautiful model for this. I loved this paragraph:
"On the other hand, the need to establish relationships with and care for non-human lives speaks to an ecology and co-dependency that exists both in the microcosm of yeast and bacteria and within our human-sized realm.
How do we establish these relationships? What kinds of lives are we nurturing (and which ones are we allowing to decay)? What microorganisms are souring our society? Which institutions have or have not been successfully preserved?
These are some of the questions that can arise from an interconnected consciousness between us and other microorganisms."
I'm sorry I missed so many of your newsletters! It's been a tough spring and this piece just sent me screaming to reading what I missed. wonderful
This was such a great read! I'm ALL about ushering in a more relational way of being, and I had never before thought of fermentation as such a beautiful model for this. I loved this paragraph:
"On the other hand, the need to establish relationships with and care for non-human lives speaks to an ecology and co-dependency that exists both in the microcosm of yeast and bacteria and within our human-sized realm.
How do we establish these relationships? What kinds of lives are we nurturing (and which ones are we allowing to decay)? What microorganisms are souring our society? Which institutions have or have not been successfully preserved?
These are some of the questions that can arise from an interconnected consciousness between us and other microorganisms."