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Earth to earth

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The ceremony was tactile, rooted in the realities of the lives of the procession of people who came forward, each pouring Soil from their farms into a wooden tub bound with iron bands. Each handful of soil represented the life of a loved one who had died on the land on which they lived. “Earth to earth . . .”

Soil reaches deep into our psyche, into the sub-conscious.  “Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return;” soil speaks of mortality, but also of new life, of new growth. …



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