Human to Human

For those of you tracking here, you know that wander things have been brewing for quite some time. Many of us have been meeting. Experimenting with format. Loving the bejeebers out of each other. And gliding ourselves into defining phrases. “Let’s now.” “A now moment.” “And now I’m here.” “Wandership Development.”

I so love crafting experience that points to all of that. The deep stuff. The simple stuff. The embodied stuff. The really big, compelling life purpose stuff. And then surprisingly simple (almost sneaky) bits of structure that help land us naturally into the issues we most care about in life, in family, in community, in work.

Here’s the website — www.wander-school.com. It became important to give it a stand alone site.

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Yes please. Peek around. Just because. Or, to experiment with any of the programs — I’m calling them Wander Ways. Or to experiment with some regular practice. You know, meaning. Inner meeting outer. And vice versa. And, and.

See you there.

Dry ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast

My additions / experiments:
1/2 tsp ish of fresh thyme
1/2 tsp ish of fresh rosemary
1/2 tps ish of fresh oregano
1/2 tps ish of fresh chives
1/3 cup ish of pumpkin seeds

All of the ish makes it different each time. I love snipping the herbs from our front pots.

Add 1.5 cups water.

Mix. Stir. Cover for 6-12 hours.

Eventually we get to the oven. 30 minutes covered at 475 degrees. Then 15 minutes uncovered to brown it up extra.

Voila. Eight inches ish round. About five tall.

Pretty fun to create such a comforting and tasty loaf. Dana and I enjoyed it with some homemade turkey vegetable soup.

Joy of.

It’s my friend Roq that brought me to story,
so as to make meaning beneath the surface of things.
Well, Roq, and Robert Bly. And Michael Meade.
And all the others that encourage the mythopoetic.

Today, as part of Wander School, I’ll offer a story to those participating.
Three Feathers — rooted in a Grimm’s fairy tale.
There’s a few things I’ll share as context for this group of good folk
to get us started.

1. Encouragement to think of us as learning village.
For these 90 minutes, this is so much what we are, the six of us.

2. Invitation to place ourselves in a story, the tale.
With its context, it’s morals, it’s dangers, it’s surprises.

3. Nudging to notices ourselves in our stories.
Yes, the circumstances of known or not yet known relevance in waking life
that are sparked by the tale.

4. Reminder that “Circle is our friend.”
It’s how we listen with one another, rather than over top of one another.
It’s how we listen to Life moving

5. Loop it all back — “Learning Village is our friend.”
People in open wonder together is balm.

Jump in. As inspired. For the village. For the friendship.