Dan Fontaine joined our usual RDNA facilitator crew all the way from Santa Barbra, and is executive director of the Wilderness Youth Project (http://www.wyp.org/index.htm) he brought great love of/for birds, as well as shared some great questions about what we most fear. we had a lot to teach each other and after running into him this morning down the street from my place in Point Reyes at the Permaculture Institute of Northern California, he brought back the idea about our culture and society as container, and like any well potted plant- whether its in concrete, a raised bed or even in the confines that competitive mother nature creates- there still needs tending to, transplanting, and sometimes replacement of that "confined and potted plant."
this year has brought me this and so much more- the change that we need to see IS happening- and it is happening through communication and transportation of our words and thoughts in dialogue with one another (how many times did i just mention communication in one sentence? can never have enough words, or can we?)
we must remain in transition with how we communicate as well as what we live by. transparency is clearly a very important word in the "parlance of our times" as the Big Lebowski would say. not only in government, but in relationship, friendship, connection to nature, and the all out being of our being. the greater good is not just of service to one another and our selves, but in service to service. do right by what is already being done right. to honor and give gratitude more to the ever being of "being" (or human being? or animal being?...hmm words words words)
one last thought and questions to keep us ever searching for more:
when your faced with insecurities, do you move towards them? face them head on? or keep close the fact that without certain emotions and edges we would simply be numb and boring?
when the question arises about whether something is or isn't-"is that a willow thicket? no it doesn't look like it, but its the right place for one... damn! what is it?" it should be just as it is, that it is not the question of willow or not willow, but the thicket as a whole.
the concern around whether or not we are right about something should and can be met with grace and patience and the fear of being wrong is held with gratitude...
Hold close the edge, and fear not that is which is wrong.
after all its about the sum of the parts, and the soil in which the roots take hold to build upon the whole that really matters.
