2Rt Mate Tuesday

The Cellular Palimpsest of Nature’s Feral Architecture | Brooke Carter

Before We Start | My Conceptual Prelude:
​This particular editorial flow came to me while I was reading Papyrus by Irene Vallejo which I highly recommend by the way. As the title suggests, it has to do with the history making of paper which leads us to the word Palimpsest in the title. At the same time, I received the text message from a friend of mine in Wales (Hay-on-Wye) that referred me to Mary Reynolds in Ireland. A fellow lover of nature and a true activist. From there, it was an easy job to tie in Brooke Carter to whom which I’ve been following for a few years and would love to interview for The Pranasphere™.
The rest comes from my intimate relationship with reincarnation on a cellular level and the foolish path in which we are Goose Stepping down at an almost globally ignored rate.
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​Cellular Palimpsest means for me:

Our cells are layered manuscripts—each generation of life (and each generation of our own cells) is written over the previous version, but the earlier text is never fully erased. It’s still there, faintly visible beneath.

Cellular = the biological building blocks, DNA, evolutionary memory encoded in our bodies

Palimpsest = a manuscript page that’s been scraped clean and rewritten, but the ghost of earlier writing remains visible underneath.

• It’s the biological version of “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny“—we contain our entire evolutionary past, layered and compressed, still influencing how we move, think, and respond to the world.

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Hi Friend,

I was raised between the desolation of Death Valley and the endless horizons of Mexico’s beaches, coupled with the Santa Monica Mountains of Malibu and the beaches Cardiff-by-the-Sea Ca. Long before I ever knew the word yoga, nature had already taught me its essence: stillness within motion, order within wildness. The Ayurvedic philosophy, too, is nothing more than the observation of these same patterns — how life maintains balance through its own intelligent design.

We are walking archives. Fish gills became our inner ear bones. The ocean’s salinity still runs in our blood. We contain our entire evolutionary past, layered and compressed, still influencing how we move and respond to the world.

​Mary Reynolds, the Irish nature activist, speaks with the voice of a poet—as all Irish do, language itself is a reflection of their landscape. She walked away from what most people consider perfection—manicured lawns, controlled borders—and let her land breathe again. She’s restoring what she calls “the feral blueprint“—architecture without architect.

Halfway across the world, decades younger (13), Brooke Carter moves through the South African veld with the fluency of someone who never forgot the original language. Iv’e been following her for 3 years now and just loving it.
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They’ve never met, Mary and Brooke. One is the earlier text, written in the script of experience and motherhood. The other is the newer inscription, carrying forward what Mary articulated, but in a younger hand. Together they are a palimpsest of feminine ecological intelligence—two generations, two continents, one conversation with the earth that has been ongoing since the first cell remembered how to divide.

I’m adding both to my list of people to visit and interview for The Pranasphere™ at Pranayama.com.

Enjoy the below follow-up,
oxox Dennis

P.S. Think The Biggest Little Farm (2018) — (the trailer) how surrender and stewardship grow side by side.
​P.P.S. The Garden Awakening by Mary Reynolds (2016) — a reminder that the land, like the mind, only needs permission to remember itself.
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⚡The Hard Wired The Hard Wired is a term I use to represent people (authors, thought leaders…), subjects, places, etc. that I tap into on a regular basis and most likely will go to see in person or already have… Jessica & Tom Quinn I’ve known Tom Quinn for more than twenty-five years—long before Yoga View was even a dream—and it’s been one of life’s great privileges to watch him and Jessica build something as genuine as they are. What they’ve created in Chicago isn’t just a yoga studio; it’s a sanctuary for presence, humility, and hard-earned grace. ​ Together they’ve cultivated a community that feels more like family than clientele, a space where real practice—of the body, the breath, and the human heart—happens every day. Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga based teachings and more: YogaView.com​

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Between The Covers

Ryan Holiday’s story is as good as any of the Real life stories he’s written about in any of his books. For the last three days, I’ve scoured both audiobook and the handheld book Wisdom Takes Work. It’s been well worth my time.
Just sayin… Audible version here.​

Some little tidbits; Wisdom Takes Work.

• Wisdom as a skill, not a gift: Holiday argues that wisdom is not something you’re born with or stumble upon—it’s earned through steady work, reflection, and experience.
• Self-education and deep reading: The book emphasizes how historical figures like Montaigne, Seneca, and Lincoln cultivated wisdom not by shortcuts, but by reading widely, questioning their beliefs, and living deliberately.
• The necessity of struggle and tempering intelligence: Holiday warns that knowledge or power without the tempering virtue of wisdom can be dangerous. He highlights how resistance, difficulty, and mental work are essential parts of the journey.

The chapter on Elon Musk is absolutely over the top—almost unnerving in its depth. The audiobook, read by the author himself, adds a layer of intimacy that makes the ideas land even harder. In an age where the threshold of true understanding feels increasingly shallow, this book lifts that plastic see-through curtain with Ryan’s signature cadence.
Get it at his bookstore in Texas here.

The Update:

We are were so close! On the 31st we were ready to launch when my friend John Bellingham in Scotland decided to do a final search on the Internet for any podcasts that would be named “The Daily Pulse”.
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Unfortunately, several pulled up that we did not pull up the first time we did a search. So that brought us to a screeching halt BUT! I was prepared with another name that in the long run, as usual, is better than the first.
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We will be calling our long form interview podcasts ” The Pranasphere Podcast” & the 3 min. Practice & Inspiration Podcast+Read “The Daily Pranasphere.“
This keeps it all within the Pranasphere ecosystem at Pranayama.com
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This also gives us time to tighten up the workflow. Which is necessary when one is launching an extraordinary long term passion project.
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Launching sooner than you think….

Stay in the light of love my friends it’s always worth it. oxoxo -D