part of the motivation for this project of course, is that our lives on this planet are too short.
there’s not enough time to write down / record all of our thoughts, not enough time to sit and listen to our elders for months or years, as much as we would want to completely just stop everything and listen to what the have to say and teach. there’s not enough time to connect with our family and friends and communicate with / understand eachother as COMPLETELY as we want to. so every day is a struggle to put food on the table, pay the bills, get all our chores done, work, eat, and hopefully have some time to enjoy life a little.
this month i’ve lost my mentor, one of my best friends, and have dealt with a LOT of pain and loss.
i’d be lynig if i said i didn’t think about just throwing in the towel on all my creative / entrepreneurial / community projects & ideas and just going to work at quiktrip. but i’ve decided to move ahead. it will take some time; i have no doubts that it will probably be months until i am back to the same level of activity that i am used to being at, but after reflecting, i realize that i’ll in fact be serving a greater cause w/ this project than i thought.
yes preserving knowledge/wisdom (in the case of this project via language) is important. but even more important is what future generations will gain from being able to access it.
i was inspired by hugh mcleod, though. he wrote that, “life is too short not to do something that matters.” …and that’s stuck with me. in fact if anything drives this little experiment of mine, if it becomes anything significant, it will be because myself and others see that life is too short. that (yes, amongst literally a million other things…) this matters and is an important cause to do something about.