The Mad Agriculture Journal
Journal Issue 13: Letter from the Executive Director
Published on
July 01, 2025
Written by
Philip Taylor
Photos by
Jane Cavagnero
This Journal is prismatic, stories like colors flashing at the edge of the movement, rainbows popping with emerging consciousness, shadows revealed in remembrance, refractions of light bending through the lens of degradation and regeneration, facets of the same surface, diversity is unity; All-One.
Regeneration is a kaleidoscopic lens on reality, Earth as living art. The stories herein bear witness to the ephemeral and marginal times and spaces; they dance with impermanence while honoring the path. Beneath the details you find the fundamentals. As Tony Bezylko writes in his poem, “…you get lost wandering a world of edges. A world of margins and peripheries, boundaries and borders, thresholds and liminalities.”
So I wonder—if you turned the kaleidoscope just one more time, what would you see? What if the fracture was not a flaw, but a portal? Could the distortion reveal a deeper pattern—one that only appears when you loosen your grip on certainty and lean into the swirl? In a world so bent on clarity, perhaps it’s the blur that brings us closer to the truth.
These stories ask us to play at the edges as a way of revealing what’s been hidden, and more deeply, as a way of finding ourselves and our place in it all. They invite us to shift the way we see, situate, and create culture by shifting our time and attention to tending to ourselves through wandering, exploration and discovery. In turn, we surely will deepen our participation in place and undoubtedly find what is vivid, multifaceted, beautiful and sometimes terrifying.
