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There was a time when people could not expect to
live past age 40, when survival depended on memory and repeated patterns of
behavior, when the group into which you were born was your only reliable
resource, when the seasons of the year and the weather were a mortal
threat.
I think that the winter here in a 'temperate
climate (the average of the many days that are too cold or too hot)
can still call those feelings, even now when we have choices and time and
opportunities to be just curious.
There have long been festivals in the dead of
winter, when a belief in spring, a coming better time, is affirmed and
people share what they have created or found to make others happier. This
list is an on-going festival, where the gifts are knowledge and insight, and we
are all confident that we are learning more, better off this year than last, and
will come to know enough to begin to be satisfied.
This is a good place to be. Thank
you.
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