23/2/2005
I’ve just submitted this to Touchstone, so we will see if it gets printed… Anyway, I thought you might be interested in a preview.
During the early part of my Ovate work, I was given the sense that along this portion of my journey, I need to spend more time looking beyond words. It is a strange thing, for I have, like many of us in this highly literate culture, spent much of my life wrapped in words. I am at home in the rarified air of academia, possessor of some mathematical ability as well as an appreciator of poetry and literature, and a fairly sophisticated user of words. Yet for at least 10 years, I have been unravelling their hold on me.
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For some reason one doesn’t seem to be able to comment on the very helpful and organised planning for future events paragraph that someone wrote – it also doesn’t say who wrote it! But whoever, I’ll happily help out with organisation of a visit to Ankerwyke, though if we’re going for August maybe it might be better to do 21st rather than 28th as that would likely be bank holiday so the roads might be snarled up and people might be doing other things. I suppose we would also have to find out if people were on holiday anyhow.
Yes, I have spent the last year or so on the Earth Element. Mainly because of what I had set myself as a task for Gwers 18. But now I’m ready to move on, hopefully somewhat faster.
Gwers 19 asks you to do something practical for the protection of the Earth. I decided that we humans are killing ourselves by polluting the Earth. So I joined Friends of the Earth. So far so boring.
But I also believe that we are killing ourselves, at this moment in history but not for the first time, by paying more attention to what divides us as a human family than what we have in common. On a daily basis the media bring us messages that present difference as a threat. And we often willfully maintain prejudices and misunderstandings between people.
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