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Third in the Greatest Story Never Told installment.

Who are you most longing to become? How we answer this is different for an ancient rooted tree than for a recent immigrant searching for a niche of stable self-sufficiency. Who we already have become together feels more important to thriving groves of WiseElders than to adolescent immigrants actively learning creolizing bilingual skills still coming together for survival. So too, offering Sanctuary, becoming Sanctuary, inviting bicameral Sanctuary, is rooted in Green complex nutrients for feeding, and warm wet watering whispering easier cozier more accessible nutrients for everyone-- but especially appreciated by more recent emigrants flowing into a new garden of hospitality, of multicultural cooperation, of shared cooperative residence and patterns of safe, sometimes exciting, new transport toward healthiest wealth. A gardener's intent to both offer and share sanctuary may provoke well-nurtured gratitude in a recent annual immigrant, but a more sleepy and self-satisfied entitlement in mature seniority of perennials, Yet, primordially feeling and speaking, we are all immigrants newly becoming together with each new dawn, and determined to cooperatively rest in grateful dreams with each renewing dusk. Who are we most belonging within by becoming Green Sanctuary together? Some guilds of mutual interest and investment invite growing a cooperative sanctuary for food, fuel, fiber Other teams choose cooperatively owned and managed shelter, gardens, farms, transporting cars and trucks and bikes and horses, Others focus on cooperatively owned and managed soil, observing that democratically co-invested compost, like capital, fertilizes healthy savings in a nutritional bank for cooperative food constituents. And so it goes, whether Republican or Democrat, Libertarian or Green, Who we want to become together is more cooperatively resilient, more robustly compassionate and co-empowering, so less aloof alone smug and self-satisfied about our competitive win/lose economic and partisan histories of colonization; When, truth become remembered, we are all reborn naked emigrants and needy immigrants.

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