Some themes of our discussion as I recall them:
(1) The observation that so much of the perceived "expertise" is bi-coastal, which emerged as an intention to recognize and appreciate the conscious peace-builders in the heartland, specifically in our (Fred's, Lynda's, Mary's) places in SW Ohio.
(2) Much sweet discussion about the conscious masculine and the conscious feminine and that eventually connected to Fred's offer to connect Lynda's and Mary's focus on women and peace to that same focus in the Cities of Peace movement, by way of supporting a women and peace retreat Solstice, 2012 (?)
(3) I was much taken with Lynda's insight about coming together around a "big question" and going deep into contemplation, meditation, and relationship(s) around that.
Work Song, part 2,
wendell Berry
A Vision
If we will have the wisdom to survive,
to stand like slow growing trees
on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it...
then a long time after we are dead
the lives our lives prepare will live
here, their houses strongly placed
upon the valley sides...
The river will run
clear, as we will never know it...
On the steeps where greed and ignorance cut down
the old forest, an old forest will stand,
its rich leaf-fall drifting on its roots.
The veins of forgotten springs will have opened.
Families will be singing in the fields...
Memory,
native to this valley, will spread over it
like a grove, and memory will grow
into legend, legend into song, song
into sacrament. The abundance of this place,
the songs of its people and its birds,
will be health and wisdom and indwelling
light. This is no paradisal dream.
Its hardship is its reality.
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