New Jerusalem

In prayerful reflections with Mother Earth, what do you get when you combine the DTLA 2040 Downtown Community Plan Update process with Executive Order N-15–19 with Eco-Restoration with “I Hope Your Flowers Bloom” with Skid Row as a “heat island” with the words of Rabbi Ezekiel Landau with the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 with Biomimicry? A confusing mess. Well, yes, but you also get New Jerusalem.

Carly Simon — 1988

We’re coming to the edge
Running on the water
Coming through the fog
Your sons and daughters

Let the river run
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation
Come, the New Jerusalem

During the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco, Governor Jerry Brown said: “If a researcher does an experiment, and you find out they’ve got a medicine that works, it spreads.”

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The premise of New Jerusalem is Mother Earth is kind and compassionate so desires not only to heal herself but to heal humanity as well. For California, Mother Earth desires the beginning of this kindness and compassion to be Skid Row Downtown Los Angeles.

Rabbi Ezekiel Landau of Prague tells of two people fighting over the same piece of land. “The land belongs to me,” one shouts. “No, it belongs to me!”, replies the other. They finally bring the matter to a judge. The judge listens to each person, then kneels and puts an ear to the ground, listens to the land and stands up. “The land does not belong to either one of you,” says the judge. “Rather, you belong to the land.”