Living Mission

We attended the “Profound Humanness” event in Asheville on Sunday, set up by the Baileys and Wainwrights and led by Charles Lingo and Marie Sharp (below), using Vance Sherwood Engleman’s book, In Search of Profound Humanness. About thirty were present, mostly from the Jubilee Community. In my group, Lori, a professor from an Oklahoma university, and Rowan, a 20-something doula, decided that the items in one cluster had to do with “living mission.” They said, “Vance is dead but his life mission, represented in his book and in our dialogue here, goes on.” Living mission is endless: Vance’s mission of nonviolence grows out of Gandhi’s mission and all those before and all those who follow. ~jpc

The “crimson line” winds on. Namaste.

top image: The Hindu, India’s national newspaper, as Vance makes comments about India’s future and announces his book: http://www.hindu.com/lf/2005/01/16/stories/2005011600320200.htm