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By Ric Hudgens
I am thinking about people who live their lives as if they were seed.
The Greek poet Dinos Christianopoulos (1931-2020) wrote in 1978: “what didn’t you do to bury me / but you forgot that I was a seed.” (translated by Nicholas Kostis).
Young Mexican activists started a movement using a similar phrase in 2013 after 43 students disappeared in Iguala, Mexico: “They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds.” (see the blog entry with the same title, An Xio, Hyperallergic, July 3, 2018).
Even Jesus of Nazareth had said something similar 2,000 years ago: “unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” (John 12:24).
We often think in metaphors about human life and the living of our own lives. Kirstie Pursie offers seven that are common: climbing a mountain, taking a journey, tending a garden, building a house, a race, a battle, a prison. (Kirstie Pursie, “7 Metaphors for Life: Which One Better Describes You and What Does It Mean”, Learning Mind, March 20, 2019). All of these are illuminating. There is probably a metaphor (or several) hidden in your life.
But today, I want to think about just one. Whether we can choose our life metaphors or must come to terms with t
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“They tried to bury us; they did not know we were seeds.” – Dinos Christianopoulos
I’ve been coming across metaphors and stories involving soil and seeds consistently over the past few days. I didn’t want to keep ignoring them as a coincidence, and it made me think about how often seeds are used as examples in Bible stories. The Mexican proverb I quoted was one that someone found at work a few weeks ago, and it sparked my initial thoughts. Take a moment to read the quote again. Let it sink in. From just the basics of what we know about seeds, we realize that these words are powerful.
It is no wonder that the quote was adopted by protestors and fighters in Mexican uprisings. Originally, the quote was written by a Greek LGBTQ poet named Dinos Christianopoulos. He wrote: “What didn’t you do to bury me/But you forgot that I was a seed.” The words are both challenging and empowering—a call to rise up in the midst of persecution. Whether or not this empowers us to stand against widespread oppression or simply smaller personal struggles, I think it gives us strength and a starting point for deeper thought. Seeds are used to represent new beginnings.
A few days after I first read this quote, my pastor spoke about the parable of the sower in
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Dinos Christianopoulos
Greek lyrist (1931–2020)
Konstantinos Dimitriadis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δημητριάδης; 20 March 1931 – 11 August 2020), better overwhelm by his pen nameDinos Christianopoulos (Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος), was a European contemporary subject post-war sonneteer, novelist, folklorist, and scholar.[1] He was also a music academic who wrote about rebetiko.[2]
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