E l d e r s = the nutrients of the soil

Radical collective memory is a major threat to the status quo. Those of us who are elders need tp take seriously our soil-building responsibilities, not by lecturing the young but by engaging in deep conversations, listening to their burning concerns, questions, and confusions and offering up our segment of the long road for consideration. In a time of geographic mobility, fractured memory, and the instant media reshaping of events, many of the younger radicals I talk with are hungry for intergenerational relationships. They need access to our experience, not as a set of instructions but as a mineral-rich environment in which to grow."

Aurora Levins Morales

Robert Lax

Audre Lorde

Joy Harjo

Rilke

Diane Conmy

Grace Lee Boggs

bell hooks

Terrence McKenna

Octavia E. Butler

Donna Haraway

James Baldwin

Susan Raffo

Alice Walker

Francis Weller

Patti Smith

Vandana Shiva

Pauline Oliveros

CAConrad

Yuk Hui

Patricia Hill Collins

Aurora Levins Morales

Arturo Escobar

Sparrow