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ou have to live your life in conformity with the patterns and structures of reality in order to be a healthy human being. That kind of teaching is going on in the womb. And that pattern goes back. When a Yup’ik mother-to-be today goes through the hotel door at the Hotel Captain Cook head-first without stopping, she’s repeating a pattern that goes back to the first mother and the first parents and the beginning of the human race.
So, for a village person, meaningful time can be any time you repeat the pattern that has been handed down to you from the past. If that’s where your focus is, if that’s the way you live your life, the way you get out of bed, the way you go through a doorway, the way you eat your food, then life is filled with time that passes in a very different way from the kind that we measure with clocks and calendars.
ommunity used to be there as a given
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