FOREWORD
MANY, MANY BOOKS COME ACROSS MY READING TABLE each year, but it has been a long time since one of them impressed me so much as this one has. It is a wisdom guide to help us to look deeper, to honor the essential and sacred traditions of living communities, and to take this “one wild and precious life” seriously.1
We are storytelling animals. As our hunter-gatherer ancestors sat around the fire carving arrows and eating berries, they told stories which in time were woven into the tapestry of daily life. These stories were the first encyclopedia of human knowledge. They explained where the world came from, why there are people, and why the gods put fire and death on earth. Stories told the people of a tribe who they were, where they had ...
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