When it came to being okay,..we knew that we ourselves were, and had been for awhile now. They, living in the once-moneyed-society would be okay too. But, a fast-paced, luge-style, learning curve would be corkscrewing directly ahead of our still urban-bound brethren.
We wondered through-out our relatively small agricultural and artistically inclined community-valley, whether we might not soon see some of the effects of the missing-money-syndrome,..that had left "the change" behind. This wave of awakening would surely soon be ebbing on our reality's shore.
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The Community Fire was raised at the old Sacred Spring earlier than the coming full moon. It was a-rage with abundant fuel and the dancing flame-light of that pyre lit every edge and rock-lined corner of our valley in it's illuminating invitation. The Heartbeat Drum echoed out in thundering pulses,..that resonated within the hearts of the valley dwellers,..bringing them to rest at the Great Circle's edge. They came in unison,..to gather, to listen,..to eat,..to contemplate,..to speak,..to offer what ever one might have for whatever questions were now at hand.
The golden glow burned hot and high and true into the falling twilight. As the flames began to lower their towering forms,..and the growing mountain of coals were re-arranged for the meal, the people settled in to the Earthen amphitheatre. Humming low to themselves in various harmonies of resonant peace,..in earnest and open tuned, helpful, contemplation they ate thankfully, quietly.
Words in fact,..were not spoken for many hours. The food was quitely prepared and eaten,..and then the little ones piled under the Good Tree with the traveling animals and dogs..while the Circle was tightened and the Elders began to begin the real business.
There,..in the moon-less ink of the newest ever of Night's..the elders drew their shared vision.
...Out of each-other's open and bon-fire-like radiating hearts, with a quiet and dedicated intent.
...With positive sight and all-encompassing-Love and forward reaching motion..they moved many things into place.
These meetings were difficult to describe or explain to an outside living visitor. They began after hours of seemingly unbendable silence,..and then broke like Dawn into lively, open commentary and active debate. The shared thought-time and sentance finishing happened in great, rhythmic waves of oration,sprinkled brightly with bursts of price-less insight offerings by all present. The meeting melded into "the happening"..that in consideration and thought-engeneering-style crossed multiple spans of time, meaning, and dimensions of each.
Though the Circle of Elders on that Heaven-lit night did indeed cover and reach thru the many dimensions,..they were not there to get the money back.
They were there to finally move the Now into the present of tomorrow.( And, I am,..in my own singularly insignificant way, happy to say that I attended, was in that movement,..a drop in that forward wave.)
For the items discussed and the possibilities presented that star-lit and ember-warmed eve would no less than shape every coming Tomorrow into what we recognize as Today's Now.
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