Vertical Grower Growing Arugula

Due to technical difficulties we have not been able to post on the Diary of the Worm the last two nights. However, all is well now and postings will resume. The one for today was the posting we were not able to post for Feb. 11th.

Today I took a picture of the vertical grower in the sun room with arugula seeds growing on the top two trays and the bottom two trays just planted yesterday with arugula seeds. In the background you can see the snow-covered worm depository, winter home for worms, in the backyard.

After taking the picture my thoughts turned to the newspaper’s business section, where someone at a prayer vigil for homicide victims pointed out an article about handmade valentines that featured one with a hand gun pointed declaring: “Be my valentine…and nobody gets hurt.” After seeing this obscene card and reading the article my eyes fell on an article on top of the page: “Russell sells London subsidiary”.

The article was about Russell Investments, a subsidiary of Milwaukee’s Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., which is selling its London based equity management subsidiary Pantheon Ventures for about $776 million in cash. It is selling this subsidiary of a subsidiary to Affiliated Mangers Group, a “global asset management company with equity investments in boutique investment management firms”. Russell Investment says it is doing this to allow them to “focus on additional strategic initiatives”, like enhancement of its index business.

Simply said, one organization that makes money by using money, usury, is selling part of its business of using money to make money to another organization that makes money by using money. Or we can say that this is an example of how usury has gotten out of control in a world where one used to have to work to make money.

In the vertical planter the plants grow naturally. In the business world money is used to make money. This type of usury that is now so common in the world was considered by the early Christian Church as wrong, a sin against nature and the church. Maybe the early Christians had a point. Money does not, like plants, grow naturally.

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