[Dialogue] Ten Books 2 Questions for the Fall Sojourn

[steve har]

John,

Interesting Book list of 10 -this list-
Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer ("Costly Grace")
Shaking of the Foundations, Tillich ("You Are Accepted")
Courage To Be, Tillich ("The Power of Being")
Saviors of God, Kazantzakis ("The March" section)
I and Thou, Buber (Part I into II)
Befriending the Earth, T. Berry (little book--first real intro to TB)
Grace and Grit, Wilber ("Who Am I?")
Called To Be, memoir (whole thing)
One Taste, Wilber ("A Spirituality that Transforms," Feb 11)
The Great Work, T. Berry ("The Great Work")

2 Qs
-Would you share a personal story from your top 10 list?
-would you comment and/or share the story on draft spirit exercise for
the Fall Sojourn?


Q1 Share a Personal Story? Wondering if you would share a personal
story of your experience of being addressed by the words of one of
those writers/editors.

At the recent Mpls 50th Celebration we studied Bending History Addie
Batika and a small group studied JWM's ethics paper. He told a story
of having a "Bonhoeffer Moment".
Given the number of iPad video clips at the celebration, Addi's talks
will be in a YouTube clip of the Mpls 50th Celebration.

2Q, Would you share your story and/or  comment on a draft spirit
construct for the Fall Sojourn beginning mid September?

Story-making. In the 50/50 vision view of things this year, most of
the 50 years past is 20th Century "dream time" stories now, most of
the next 50 years isn't even the hope of a life-giving event yet.

In this Blog and Facebook world, how to "find the future of our past"
and share our Global Archive Assets online, probably in focused
collections, new e-books and stories? [Your blog is interesting
pioneering]!

Karen Snyder said recently in the A77 Program [with a side glance
toward the new Archive index of more than 16,000 real documents]:
"Maybe stories are just data with a soul". Seems like "stories told to
the ear and stories told to the page is what you are pioneering with
your lively blog posts.

In preparing for the Fall Sojourn, I found in one of those files an
Odyssey construct procedure with some very simple very fine meditation
exercises. I've been trying to adapt them for possible use at the Fall
Sojourn to see if the Sojourn Prep Team might recommend them for the
Fall Sojourn. There is a draft construct "in-the cloud" for comment
and for testing story-making.

The Odyssey meditation gave you 10 minute writing practice
-the bell rang
-you selected an image of an event or a memorable character
-[example a favorite teacher, a poet, a wise one maybe a photo Joe
Mathews testifying before Congress about 5th City, a poet like Dag
Hammarskjold, a wise one like Brian Stnafield's new e-book] and
-wrote a 1st draft short-short story within 10 minutes

In the original Odyssey exercise, we didn't share our stories for some
reason, they were considered to be "solitary offices". What if we
wrote new ones and actually did share them like 1st draft postcards
for the future? I'm guessing this might be behind what Randy Williams
is thinking about with his Event vs. Story considerations.

Here is the 2nd Question.

There is a Fall Sojourn google doc cloud-document started that
attempts  to update this spirit practice. It is available online as a
google doc cloud document with a private distribution list.

Wishing you would comment and try writing a 10 minute story maybe from
one of your top 10 book experiences?

Send an email to fallsojourn at gmail.com, I'l send you the link for the
draft spirit construct where you can comment or type in a story if you
would please.

Others welcome too.
got a story?
want to try out or comment on the construct?
email fallsojourn at gmail.com subject line: story making

--
Steve Harrington