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Issue No. 7 QUESTIONS
For the Questions issue we are turning our focus from the outside world and bringing it inward. Each day for 100 days we will step out into the world and meet with one person. We will ask each person we meet the same 12 questions. At the end of 100 days we hope to capture our collective voice within this interwoven web of dialog.
Day 46: Thomas Weeping Owl Keene-Wall
What do you do for a living?
I’m a server in a restaurant.
What do you do to feel alive?
My work in life is to heal and to hold circles for healing and to deepen my relationship with all circles of life.
A lesson you learned from your mother:
I think the deepest one is just that the thing that most people call “God” is everywhere and in everything.
A lesson you learned from your father:
Even the most severe rigidities can give way to humility.
What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?
The gift of a feather on the ground.
What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?
The things I wouldn’t want anyone to take away from me no one can take away.
What’s a thought you would like to never have again?
That separation in any of its various forms or shapes is somehow true.
If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?
A talking stick – it’s a ceremonial stick that is passed around a healing circle and when a person is holding the stick in the circle the loving attention of the circle goes to that person.
When do you feel most loved?
When there’s no space inside me for the illusion of separation.
If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?
There’s nothing. There’s lots to do, but only tomorrow holds what needs to be done.
What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?
It would be helping people to remember the original instructions.
What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
I think the scariest thing – because it is the root of all fears within me – was being beaten by my father at 18 months old with a belt.