Our friend Dr Ratnadevi has been awarded her Phd; Congratulations!
She ends her letter to ak and I that gives the good news with a quotation:
– "What do the animals get back from us?" Gary Snyder was asked by a Native American Student.
– "We do ceremonies and rituals. Performance is currency in the deep world’s gift economy. The human contribution to the planetary ecology might be our entertaining eccentricity…"
Weblog ceremonies and rituals may belong to this deep world’s gift economy – the economy of Charis, pleasure and Grace – I found myself thinking as I completed writing the first few posts for the opening of waverequiem.
mmj