{"id":39318,"date":"2022-07-01T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T07:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=39318"},"modified":"2022-07-06T20:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:23:20","slug":"biographical-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/biographical-compost\/","title":{"rendered":"Biographical Compost"},"content":{"rendered":"Susan West Kurz evokes compost as a potent metaphor for biography work. Here, as we round the corner to St. John\u2019s and the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, we offer this as an inspiration for the human skills needed to meet the future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography work is a little like making compost. While composting, one chooses a place in the garden and begins to build a structure with varied organic materials: food scraps, grass clippings, leaves, cow manure (if you\u2019re lucky), and straw are layered in a long, narrow mound left to transform through the seasons. If you practice Biodynamic gardening, you might add small pinches of five herbal preparations to enhance the process and create a bridge between earthly, biological, and cosmic forces.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn biography work, one gathers me<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan West Kurz evokes compost as a potent metaphor for biography work. Here, as we round the corner to St. John\u2019s and the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, we offer this as an inspiration for the human skills needed to meet the future. Biography work is a little like making compost. While composting, one chooses a place in the garden and begins to build a structure with varied organic materials: food scraps, grass clippings, leaves, cow manure (if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17106,"featured_media":39321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9147,8782],"tags":[8814],"class_list":["post-39318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-becoming-human","category-education","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}