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Yvette Worrall's avatar

Thank you for this clear compilation of events past and the resistance of now and to come.

I am reminded again of the story of Rumpelstiltskin, the dark force that can engineer the salvation of the foolish miller's daughter with his magical 'technology' - at great cost - the taking away and control of the future in the form of her child. The pride, arrogance and over confidence of the tight, scrawny, shriveled-of-life creature is its downfall. And naming it - provokes such anger that it self-destructs.

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Mary Poindexter McLaughlin's avatar

I LOVE THIS, Michael. Wow. Now I understand why you've been hatching this for a while -- it needed a full gestation! This gorgeous line jumped out at me:

"Our elephant is being born into a hostile world precisely because that hostile world has called it forth."

Damn, there's a poem in there somewhere, I can feel it.

Thank you for the clear eyed, hopeful brilliance of this.

On to Part II! xox

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