[Dialogue] Questions for the Fall Sojourn

[John Cock]

Sure, Steve, if you ask everyone else who's putting up their transformative
books.

And if you, in 5-10 lines, tell us what you want. Tough trying to get
through all your ramblings.

Yet, pretty sure you are a good soul,

John 

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Subject: [Dialogue] Ten Books 2 Questions for the Fall Sojourn

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
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