Episode 23: Conversation Starter for "A Ritual To Read Each Other."

Here are several questions for individual or community reflection based on Episode 23: “A Ritual To Read Each Other,” by William Stafford. If the inner work we describe in Episode 23 feels like your work, please take a listen and reflect on whatever arises for you. Better yet, get online using Zoom or Skype, and reflect with some friends. Here are some questions that came to us, one for each verse:

(1) From your own life, do you have stories about what it means to follow “the wrong god” home, misled by “a pattern that others made”? (2) Can you think of examples of childhood challenges that show up in adult life to make things difficult once again? (3) How do you understand the poet’s claim that it’s “cruel” to “know what occurs but not recognize the fact”? (4) What does it take to speak truthfully with family, friends, and colleagues instead of trying to fool each other? (5) To what can you say a clear “yes,” to what a clear “no,” and to what must you say “maybe”?

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