flourishing sprouts • gary e. davis • berkeley


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	flourishing sprouts gary e. davis	July 24, 2025

Seeking to grow a flourishing life, sustain that, and advance it is always appealing.

But talking about it easily gets tiresome, because it’s about being very well.

So, I’ve hoped to be engaging for the sake of being.

That’s easily shown as proximally manifold modes of flourishing, then all manner of wild gardening: sundry, designing, and conceptually aspiring, working to advance integral, differential, and creative thinking.

But I find other scholars taming conceptual engagements of flourishing, for lives going along modestly—which is good and needed for ordinary life (especially for young venturers). But I humbly feel to be way beyond that, even as if there’s no audience for what I’m prospecting, as if I’m in wilds of some nameless kind—which is fine. I love the pathmaking, where sprouting particulars into a pointillism of themes may evince unusually appealing constellations I share.

Each particular (theme, conception, topic) may further differentiate, expressing tropical mitosis which furthers itself, like evolving Self in Deep Time, eonic Earthanity daily recalled by ravens around campus whose cries echo winged dinosaurs.

“You’re a tiny sprout in wild Time,” maybe an infantic (relatively neonatal) in-
stance of intelligence in Our galaxy where beings Out There are entertained
by Us, those imaged gods waiting for Us to gain ability to appreciate their scale
of conceivability so far.

back to gardening moments, this being alive