FW: The 7 biggest resettlement myths
Pat Ladley
Ashley,
This the IRC piece mentioned at yesterday’s IWR potluck. Perhaps IWR friends would like to read it & pass it along to Rep. Tom Reed, et. al.,-- when confronted with trumped-up misinformation, official hates and fears rendered by officialdom & corporate-owned media.
We’re reminded of lines from Wendell Berry’s 1968 poem “ To a Siberian Woodsman”(after looking at some pictures in a magazine): “Who has invented our enmity?...Who has said that the voices of my land shall be strange to you, and the voices of your land strange to me?...Who has imagined that I would not speak familiarly with you, or laugh with you, or visit in your house and go to work with you in the forest? And now one of the ideas of my place will be that you would gladly talk and visit and work with me.” (from stanza 4)
Missed bi-locating to support ICOA’s reading & festivities @ The Kitchen Theatre last evening. How did it go?
Thank you for all of your good work… and to David & Jenny & Mary Kate and all who made yesterday afternoon’s IWR gathering a precious moment of community. It inspires us to be in the presence of gifted younger and experienced persons--who keep stretching their & our hands, hearts, imaginations and resources to welcome strangers, who, in turn, can help us understand new ways of being neighbors and friends.
Gratefully,
Pat & Peter Ladley
From: IRC News [mailto:upd...@emails.rescue.orgSent: Saturday, September 24, 2016 9:07 AM
To: lad...@earthlink.net
Subject: The 7 biggest resettlement myths
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