Of philological gardening • gary e. davis • berkeley


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	Of philological gardening, thank you… gary e. davis	December 31, 2025

…gifts of time, because thriving, life enhanciveness (thus, better being), appreci-
ative valuing, conceptual audacity, and mindful cohering have nurtured so much aspirational flourishing.

To wit—with some themic compression in recapitulating themes of last months’
“a better appreciability,” mirroring futural engagements (upcoming online)—
in other words: moving on, in being recurrently recollective, which is reflective
of anticipations in horizonal reflections of long-invested time for generating
a wealth of sensibility (I hope), being altogether a sojourn of generative recursive-
ness, a play of futuring mirrored by remembrance, in mirrorplay of:

Thriving is as vital to intelligent life as the hedonic mode of flourishing is to
its eudaemnic mode.

In other words, somatic health is vital to mental health, which implies a lived cohering as bi-modal holism (relative to standard positive psychology) for richer mindfulness, and that may lead to happier old age than does unfairness to each mode (a truth which any preventive health care professional would avow). Self-care is integral to thriving, obviously.

Philosophically, thriving is natural goodness fleshed out through time, “natural self-enhanciveness” which may evince better being for a wholly flourishing life.

Better belonging in the scale of one’s humanity gives Self interest an appeal which may never end, as a person—I, for instance—love being among “ever-developing minds in culturally evolving life.”

“Dwelling with better values…better valuing,” grants oneself “a relationality
of ‘having’ value” due to instilling value: showing appreciation, highlighting better preferences, dramatizing appeals of better relevance, framing options which are relatively better—being mindfully lucid at least, yet better: “working for a preferred scale of appreciation.”

Better understanding of value as such, relative to Value, axially involves
a receptiveness (granting) and responsiveness (bearing) which gives intrinsic value preference over extrinsic value in pragmatic balance for orientation
of action.

But detailing aspects of value conceptuality, credibly and usefully, depends on one’s scale of constellating significantly: prospecting a horizonal conception
of what’s generally better valuing.

Such constellating is better understood as figuratively conceptual, as tropically philosophical appeals of philological flourishing.

Well “better,” given time.

There can be highly appellant telic cohering. Yet, Our evolving is endless,
given ecologically flourishing humanity which We are to instill as good ancestors.

Always, an endless odyssey appeals ahead because We are evolving.

For my part, in good conscience, “a protean conception of highness” may “better exemplify” a relatively better resort, a highland always learning from midland and lowland life—to my mind an “endless reflectivity of conceptual venturing in Our ultimately open evolving.”

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