The previous email exchange between Juanita, Phil, Anne and others inspired Toke to write this:<\/p>\n
"Thank you Dresden, Columbus, Juanita, David, Ann, Pat, Jeff, Phil and all the rest of you hosting folks
as we in the world – slowly but surely – are beginning to remember ourselves in the world as cafe…"<\/p>\n
Here is the poem Toke wrote:<\/p>\n
sisters
cities
cities that learn
sisters that learn
brothers too
not to forget<\/p>\n
learning that learns
we people
that heal by listening to
ourselves
and each other<\/p>\n
what may growth forth from this
most sincere wish
that we may
live today
the peace, consciousness
and compassion
that may govern us tomorrow<\/p>\n
two generations after the bombing
we gather to listen, question and heal
to experience the oldest new there is
oneness – understanding – common ground
just beyond our differences<\/p>\n
what is the bombing
we may prevent today
by our conversations ?<\/p>\n
learning for survival
thriving on joy
of giving from the heart<\/p>\n
being in conversation to be in learning
learning to be in conversation
hosting the conversation that matter
hosting the learning
hosting the sisters to be in community
a whole new hope of unity
beyond the borders
we know too well<\/p>\n
What if
hosting spaces and conversations that matter
is the kind of leadership
that allows sister cities to learn
their best future together ?<\/p>\n
I am in this One boat
with everyone<\/p>\n
grateful for a life
of love and meaning<\/p>\n
let us take the next steps
and see
how me may
awaken
to what is
true friendship
in action<\/p>\n
– toke<\/p>\n
" The problems of the war and disharmony
in our world is maybe because of all
the conversations that never took place."
– Queen Margaret of Denmark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The previous email exchange between Juanita, Phil, Anne and others inspired Toke to write this:<\/p>\n
"Thank you Dresden, Columbus, Juanita, David, Ann, Pat, Jeff, Phil and all the rest of you hosting folks
as we in the world – slowly but surely – are beginning to remember ourselves in the world as cafe…"<\/p>\n
Here is the poem Toke wrote:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[701],"tags":[658],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dresden","tag-theworldcafe-wc_dresden-wc_europe-sistercities-dresden-columbus-theworldascafe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6sDis-g6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldcafe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}