Place-Making Towards Thriving

All thriving occurs some Place -
In Community

Vast as the earth, Intimate as your heart.

You, sitting on that rock,

Your loved ones thriving in their dwelling places,

Always some Place,

Never alone

The extended pattern of life we inhabit

Our entire interdependent web

Ever evolves

Towards thriving.

Even when it’s killing us.

This aspiration, an ancient desire,

as yet ephemeral,

Always ephemeral,

Creates by every action

The well-being of myriad Places

Every moment, every day

Places we are in, and Places seemingly remote yet

Always specific, knowable

These make our being

Before / Here / Later

Possible.

RIGHT NOW Unseen Places exist so we can thrive.

Beings sacrifice in our names,

Proffer gifts for our well-being.

Products of Place,

Nourishing us on their way to nourishing some Place else.

We can know and understand that web,

In ways our ancestors only hoped to –

Now knowing, we

Can take responsibility for all the Places ever

Aggregating in us,

That makes us Place-makers,

In every place-moment

Responsible,
Joyful, mournful
Generative, even when destructive

SO, Here, Now, You,

There,

Reading This in That Place/Moment,

US,

together,

Reading This in our Place/Moments --

How can WE build Place-making culture –

Become ever more skillful Place-makers,

Ever enhancing the beauty of the pattern of life?

What are the skillful means we can avail ourselves of?

What do you know? Teach us. Join us.

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