 The concept of stewardship is an antidote to the old story idea that Earth is just here for our use. Religion framed it that way by saying, you know, God gave it to us to do anything we want with, and it doesn't matter that much what we do with it because in the afterlife, you know, we're beyond matter anyway, it doesn't matter. And science pretty much said the same thing by saying, yeah, it's just a bunch of stuff without the qualities of a self, without the full complement of self-ness. So we had this license to, and I want to say, do anything we want, but that actually taps into some of the beliefs of the old story that what we want is a bad thing, that improvement, that progress comes through the domination of our wants, the domination of nature in other words, the war on inner nature, mirroring the war on outer nature. So it's, so I would even question, well, is that really what we want? To lay waste to the world, to create a ruined, ugly landscape in the grandest of temporary, trivial benefits. No, that's not what we want. What we want is to fulfill our mission and purpose here. That's what we want. So the old story did give us license, it almost like gave us license to not do what we want. It diverted us onto the inappropriate application of our gifts. So stewardship says that we are surrounded by sacred beings, that the planet, that every landscape on the planet, that every place is itself a sacred being. And that our mission and duty and desire is to take good care of that place, to offer what we are supposed to offer to that place. Stewardship, I mean, some people might even question the appropriateness of the term stewardship, which still kind of puts us in charge of a place. But, you know, I'm not like a stickler for correct language. I think it can be a useful way to think about it. You know, you're a farmer. Here's the land. You're on the land. And you understand, yeah, my job is to be the guardian of this place, to be the steward of this place, to take really good care of it, to represent its interests in intersection with the human world. Maybe that would be a definition of stewardship. Really, it's about participation and service.