Happy New Year!

As 2009 draws to a close, may you be blessed by what you've learned this year and how your life has offered up glimpses of "What's God, what's world, what's gold."

Warmest wishes to you for the new year!

Deciding

One mine the Indians worked had
gold so good they left it there
for God to keep.

At night sometimes you think
your way that far, that deep,
or almost.

You hold all things or not, depending
not on greed but whether they suit what
life begins to mean.

Like those workers you study what moves,
what stays. You bow, and then, like them,
you know-

What's God, what's world, what's gold.

-William Stafford, An Oregon Message

P.S. Our vision for 2010 includes engaging many new friends in our circle — won’t you join us by making a year-end gift to the Center today?

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Parker Palmer

It takes a village to do Courage & Renewal work! The programs of the Center, its affiliates and its 160 facilitators would not have reached 25,000 people over the past decade if they were not embedded in a leader-rich community. This blog reflects the fact that Courage & Renewal work is about "us," not about any one person. So I've invited my colleagues to share in keeping this conversation going, and now we invite you to join us with your thoughts, questions, and stories. As Marge Piercy says in the last stanza of "The Low Road," a marvelous poem about how movements for change unfold,

"it starts when you say We/and know who you mean, and each/day you mean one more.”

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Parker J. Palmer

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