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Thoughts: Sharing & leaving the police out of it….

Posted on October 24, 2013by mktdaf

This is a little story from the Wake Up Project,that my friend Elaine passed on to me & you. What would you have done? Jessica Eaves from Guthrie, Oklahoma (USA) recently had her wallet stolen by a man while she was grocery shopping. Most people in that situation would immediately get the authorities involved, but…

"Everything we do and don’t do makes a wake, a legion of waves and troughs that pound the shores at the edges of what we mean, grinding away on the periphery of what we know. This goes on after the years of our private lives are long past. If we don’t learn that simple, devastating, and redeeming detail of being alive – that what we do lasts longer than we do, that the past isn’t over – then the parade of our days stands to indict much more than it bequeaths."
-- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul