tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443929421065161561.post3912763976770228116..comments2023-03-27T08:57:57.883-05:00Comments on A Sort of Homecoming: Dirt WorshipE.O'B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11316648414289173668noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443929421065161561.post-54724916508411797602010-07-20T23:15:08.674-05:002010-07-20T23:15:08.674-05:00Eric - I'm playing along on the home game and ...Eric - I'm playing along on the home game and need a little help<br /><br /><em>..current writers such as Michael Pollan, Gary Paul Nabhan, andBarbara Kingsolver--all of whom either examine or advocate "local" eating--basically rehash and renumerate Romantic tropes.</em><br /><br />Of these, I've read Kingsolver. Yet I don't recall much commentary from her on "local" eating. Then your hint to rehash & renumerate Romantic tropes really threw me. Um, Help! <br /><br />Please explain it to me on our next Wednesday night ridebradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12422901243969548083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4443929421065161561.post-26851554644137309932010-07-20T20:55:44.389-05:002010-07-20T20:55:44.389-05:00"Dirt Worship," BTW, was a horrible expr..."Dirt Worship," BTW, was a horrible expression used by 18th-century colonialists to denigrate Lakota and Cheyenne spiritual practices. Blank and I have reclaimed it, fully aware of the irony, in order to describe the sensation of prostrating oneself face-down in the dirt.<br /><br />Which happens quite a bit when we mountain bike.E.O'B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11316648414289173668noreply@blogger.com