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@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@gmail.com subject line: story making -- Steve Harrington