[Dialogue] Stick Chart Navigators

[Lee Early]

I gotta go with Jimmy Wiegal on this one.  I said something along these lines on a Skype link to our gathered colleagues in Mexico a month or so ago.  Gilles was hosting.  Leah and I were at Gordon's house with Nancy Lampher, Carol Crow, Roxy, and Dorthea Jewell.  As I recall, it was David Brooks who said recently that what society needs, at this time, is a new story, a new foundation.  

A very close friend of mine, who will remain nameless, said it might be possible that what the old order is tying to do is deny death.  (The archives were the context for this statement.)  My friend then ask me when I had experienced myself out over nothing - not knowing what to do - and having to do something.  I did recall a time or two in my life when that was the case.  My friend then asked if I went digging around in an archive somewhere, or look up the answer in a book.  No, I hadn't.  I do not believe any of us, in a similar situation would have either.  This begs the question therefore, why is the order doing this?. who is the intended audience?, under what circumstances would anyone ever stop what they are doing and search for ICA archives?  Would they even know what to Google?

Stick charts are based on some very solid earth science, star navigation and wave action.  (Oh and experience)  There are four variables.  Direction, location, distance and time.  Distance will determine time when the guy in the outrigger is chanting a specific time or rhythm to measure distance.  So, I suppose there are three variables if you combine distance and time.

I'm sure some will say that the way life is is the way life is.  Maybe, but the story surely has changed and I don't hear a new story or foundation up here in the sunny northwest.  Must be getting too much sun.

Lee


On May 1, 2011, at 2:19 PM, steve har wrote:

> Very interesting Q&A 
>  
> Randy asks: "how to put the   Event and the Story distinctions to work"
> Gene  answers: " with the New Religious Mode distinction"
> Interesting interchange! Listening for more...
> 
> But It is a puzzle too:
> one guy in a without a map searching
> one guy in a with a Joe Mathews map, he says, of the way life is 
> 
> 2 life conditions either 
> without a story and looking for one or
> with a story and trying to fit it to the world
> 
> Like those Marshall Islanders navigators with their stick charts
> off on a voyage listening to rhythm of the waves hit the prow of the boat looking for that island but, 
> back home making stick charts trying to remember the pattern
> 
> Grandpa Navagators bouncing the babies on their knees training  future navigators is what Wiegel says there is to do now
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
> 
> searching for a story...won't do
> admiring old stories... won't do either
> no way forward, no way back...
> How about you?
> 
> Steve Harrington
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> Steve Harrington
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