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Dear friends,
On the 7th of July at 8 o'clock, Nowhere becomes.
The text below will be read to remind us why we are Nowhere, and why anyone would go to no place in particular -- why we seek tabula rasa -- the 'blank slate'. Maybe to write with words from deep in our genes? To transcend the limits of our feeble words and commune with one another before the barriers of the modern world. To find relate to each other through the commonality of being human. Ursprache -- the language in Ur, the place where civilization's light first shined. Ur was once a blank slate, too...
Please join us. You are us. We cannot be Nowhere without you.
Please bring a small handful of earth with you for our opening ceremony ritual. It is earth that nourishes and supports us. Earth, a symbol for home, for roots and standing our ground, the ground that we make with our flights and our fancies. Our place of possibility.
Come -- and BE NOWHERE!
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Why have we come here? Why is this place special?
Every place that humans inhabit is really just a place for them to sleep and eat and spend lazy afternoons. A place to work and a place to labor. A place to love and to learn. A place to discover and grow. A place to dream...
Isn't that the same in mountain cabin or a metropolitan city? Why have we come here? Why is this place special?
There are cities, and mountains, and golden, far-off places that we read or hear about our whole lives, or imagine exist. Places we know are great. Places we felt once for an instant, filled with an air that glides over our skin differently...
...like it did on Christmas morning when you knew that it was finally OK to get out of bed and see what Santa brought you...
...like it did when you walked home after the first time you ever kissed someone who really liked you, too...
...like it did when the world was about the possible, not the impossible. About what comes next being bigger and more grand than even that very moment was. When was that place? Where was that time? Why were they special?
Errare.The word 'error' comes from the word 'to wander'. Why do we wander? Why have all of the errors in our lives brought us together here?
All the places of the world that tourists spend their hard-earned money travelling to are just places where people live, just like places that they themselves live. But the things that happen, the sights they see -- the energy that is present -- only thrives in some places, and not others. Great places are focal points for certain types of human energy. Manifestations of states of being. Ideas that people feed upon and feed with parts of themselves.
And so we are inexplicably, and magnetically drawn to points on the globe that abound with a sentience that resonates within ourselves. Places that fill some desperate part of our human longing. There are so many things we long for, so many different energies that we find in ourselves; so we travel, and visit those vestiges of the human spirit that we share, or long to share ourselves with.
So, now we have come to this place. We have brought this handful of the Earth from where we dwell. The earth that we walk on and toil on and cry on and spit on and wish on every day with ourselves, and we come to this place that is fresh and new. And THIS PLACE is now about the possible, not the impossible. It is about what will make bigger and more grand that every moment we've had before. It is we that make this place special. What we each come to give to each other. Each wish we've held our breath for, each person we've lost -- each moment we've had, forgotten or sparkling, comes with us. We come to create a new place. As we unite, as we grow and evolve at Nowhere, our collective energies blend and magnify to create something larger than the sum of its parts. With its ritual stirring, the earth we bring from our different homes merges and melds, representing this amalgam of energies, this cosmic soup of souls.
Community -- commune -- communicate.
Space and time have put us here. Come now and make a pact with this place and each other to BE here -- and with one another.
We are this place.
We are special.
We are new.
We are what's possible....
NOWHERE has become.
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