<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">A story-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In the mid 80's, when the student house was still in Chicago. One of Jack and Nebaj Silk's son was there. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I remember when they had new kids delivering the papers who were spatially challenged and consistently got lost. They would have the young man do their routes with them and somehow he could teach them how to track and no longer get lost.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I remember thinking maybe the out-rigger canoe's and centuries of traveling those islands taught himself we could not understand. Mystery is everywhere.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paula</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM Zoe Barley via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><p style="margin:0.1rem 0px;line-height:1">Thanks - great article.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Zoe Barley </span><br><span style="font-size:12pt">Denver Colorado </span><br><br><br></p>
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<p>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>Sent: Nov 18, 2025 8:16 AM<br>To: Order Ecumenical Community <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br>Cc: W. J. <<a href="mailto:synergi@yahoo.com" target="_blank">synergi@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: [Oe List ...] way finding</p>
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<p style="font-size:12px;line-height:16px;margin:0px;color:rgb(151,158,168)">Scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain.</p>
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