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1 " Now our bones are revealed like truth. "
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2 " We are thosewho came from the oneswho survived, buried in that placeafter walking the death trailfrom Mississippi. Missa Sipokna. We walked into this lost foreign placehaving no homes, no body of peacejust the paperswith signaturesof those who made promises not held. "
3 " I am going to die. Obviously.So are you. We don't knowwhen. Or who will go first.I'd better tell you everything I thinkI know or remember while I am stillalive. "
4 " Do you believe the wild and precious imagination of God? "
5 " Let tonight's table have a small vase of flowersand a candle perhaps, nothing else. May it be small enough we mightsee each other's eyes, might noticeevery nuance of breath. WhomeverI am most nervous to invite, may I invite them. And thoughthe tea is just a metaphor, may I offer. May they accept. "
6 " There are many reasons to treat each otherwith great tenderness. One isthe sheer miracle that we are here togetheron a planet surrounded by dying stars.One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed. "
7 " It's hard having compassionBut the tyranny of some willnot steal the bellows oxygen.And we will sing like flames. "
8 " We build monuments onthe foundations of yesterday'stemples. "
9 " This is expansion: to stand as One with all. "
10 " Teach us healing above all, soothing the centerof our being. Teach us dark solitude without longing. "
11 " Fear not of deathfor we are dying as wespeak so we canrememberhow to live again. "
12 " Without identifying me or naming me ortracking my movements, the shapesin the sky spoke with meabout transformationand we respiredtogether acceptingthe way the lightchanged o the terrain below.It was all free form, an endless dirt path, asage brushing Indian plant, a bristling grass hill rising, sloping, grading only the day's glowslipping slowly into evening sun. It was time and Ialone with the colors observinga free afternoon. "
13 " Underground, you see the danglingroots of condominiums, legs of lynched mendripping silver back into the earth.Ore crushers pound incessantly, greatpiston strokes and impacts. This townis a drum beaten by demons. "