Action is crucial, primary, hard, and without it, nothing can
happen. Action must be conquered daily; And more than action, --
working with others. This is clear, and I will never debate
against it.
This said:
We can make things endlessly, and take things apart endlessly.
What would be gained? What is the point? To what end?
I type this letter "x" to make a symbol in a sentence, and the
sentence is here to serve the point, and the point is to serve a
communication, and the communication is here to challenge vision
proposals, and the challenge is here to keep our future lives on
track for high ends, and keeping our lives on track for high ends
is to serve the heart at the center of all of our judgments: to
serve the highest values and ideals we can conceive to act by, in
the hope that higher values still will be able to make some use of
our greatest imaginings, hopes, and aspirations.
Without a chain of embedded links, leading straight into the heart
of life, I do not understand how we are doing anything of value at
all.
If we perform our acts, we may be able to impress people, and we
may be entertained for a time, but ultimately, our minds must see
through the emptiness of our fabricated fancy. There is a force
at the center of our hearts that can see straight through anything
we invent.
Who can I act with, from this sober and sometimes stern center?
Right now, surface crises include the biosphere and the economy.
These are ripe fields full of meaning. Less urgently but perhaps
more deeply, crises include human happiness and our sense for the
value of life.
Art can be a weapon to defeat sadness, and the background
depression that clouds our culture. We need to strive for
cheerfulness, felicity, creativity, exploration, imagination, and
artistic projects -- no doubt.
But I honestly do not understand the merit of our actions if they
are not rooted, performed in the spirit of Love, and in service to
high ideals and values.
I appreciate the fresh spirit: The challenge, the provocation, the
rush to act -- possibilities latent, and hinted at, becoming real.
The power of dream. A 17 year old young boy, $100 in the pocket,
and a car. Such things require no justification- There is purpose
and meaning enough in opening the door of possibility. The spirit
makes itself visible.
But we are confused if we believe that we can leave things here,
unexamined further, endlessly repeated; We will wither in one
meaningless project after another.
When I first envisioned Saturday House, I envisioned a place of
creativity, shared projects, perpetual new ideas. I envisioned
that we had bought a house, and transformed it; Made it our
"school" (our post-grad Sudbury school, or the "Xavier Institute
of Higher Learning,") that we went to on the weekends. I
envisioned a place of radical change and transformation, of new
efforts, of discovery, of cross education, of humor, of love, of
freedom, of people connected at the heart, and impossible ideas
made possible. High spirits, all around! Open Source
development, people scheduling conversations, people learning and
teaching science, people applying creativity to all things, in
effort, cooperation, and generosity.
I imagined a structure emerging, and also a way -- A way for
people who wanted to live this way, to learn, so that they too
could bring to reality this kind of life, if it was something that
they could see their own face reflected in. We would need to
learn this way ourselves, of course, but I held (and I hold) a
faith that it is something that we can find out; That there is
nothing that we need from outside of ourselves to do it.
Now, -- clearly, this did not play out.
And yet, -- this vision, is the only vision that really makes
sense to me. This is the starting point, for me. I breath so
that I can ask, "How to make this real?"
So, these are my deep feelings about Saturday House, about
Spiriata, about the future I dream of for all people who can find
some value in this.
With You,
Lion Kimbro
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