One Of The Great Dreams Of Man

In Behaving Respectfully Toward All That The Land Contains, It Is Possible To Imagine A Stifling Ignorance Falling Away From Us.

The Land Gets Inside Of Us; And We Must Decide One Way Or Another What This Means, What We Will Do About It.

For So Many Centuries, The Exchange Of Gifts Has Held Us Together. It Has Made It Possible To Bridge The Abyss Where Language Struggles.

We Keep Each Other Alive With Our Stories. We Need To Share Them, As Much As We Need To Share Food. We Also Require For Our Health The Presence Of Good Companions. One Of The Most Extraordinary Things About The Land Is That It Knows This—and It Compels Language From Some Of Us So That As A Community We May Converse About This Or That Place, And Speak Of The Need.

Everything Is Held Together With Stories. That Is All That Is Holding Us Together, Stories And Compassion.