Hi Iselin,

First, THANKS for taking the time to read my piece and for responding. That means a lot to me.

Second, I'm a person who follows intuitive guidance as best as I can, and I was just guided (I think) to respond to you here in the wee hours. I'd read your comment before going to bed so it was near enough the front of my Mind that I could access it.

Anyway, to respond to your comment, a few things.

1) A life lesson I learned was from my father which is basically "never say never" (except in the case of that sentence!). How he learned it was his mother made a bet with his sister sometime in the 1950s that humans would never walk on the moon. She paid the bet on July 20, 1969.

So whenever I make predictions, I avoid using "never" or "definitely." The future, as best as I can understand it is, in unwritten, it is by its nature possibility because we humans are, by our nature, possibilities.

Now, as you read that, you probably see I am disagreeing with your comment that "comedians will never return to college campuses agaiin." While true, I'm not meaning to be disagreeable, for just as I shy away from absolutes, I also shy away from thinking in terms of binaries, and "agree/disagree" is another. But yeah, we gotta call a spade a spade as they say, so I suppose I am disagreeing with you. Because, well, who knows what the future will bring?

In my own life, II made a comment in high school about my future that turned out to be dead wrong. One of my favorite teachers had taught for a few years in Japan and was showing us one of the school yearbooks from that fascinating country. When I looked at how no one, not even the girls, were smiling in those oh-so-grim black-and-white photos, I told my friend, "I would never even want to visit a place like that, let alone live there!"

Well, here I am, living in Japan after almost 17 years! Life is sure funny that way!

And speaking of funny, let's return to those comedians. For me, the true comedians are the courageous ones, because they tap into the archetype of the Fool, the court jester, and they do their duty to speak Truth to Power.

This means, if college campuses are becoming some sort of dictator-making machines through Woke ideology (or whatever ideology) to the point where they can't take a joke, it's the duty of the comedians to go there and try to crack those calcified eggshells of arrogance. Make 'em laugh, or die trying!

Here's another thing about me, one of my strongest beliefs is that within Paradox there is Truth. So in this message, I am being both Serious and Funny. And so should the comedian--their duty is to communicate deep truths through humor and in doing so, they will help us all remain human.

Okay, the last thing is, and this is where the intuition has led me onto a ledge where I must choose whether to embrace my own Fool's journey and take a leap, risking that I won't sprout the wings to fly before hitting the floor of the valley below. So here goes:

Last evening, I accidentally opened the "wrong" file on my desktop and this morning saw that it was open. It is a PDF of this amazing story that I received a few months ago written by a Maori spiritual teacher. A friend had given me another of his books which I loved but I hadn't read this one yet. So, I just read it. And, as you'll see if you read it, what a breath of fresh air and fabulous insight!

So I want to share it with you with the understanding you are under no obligation, contractual or otherwise, to read it. But my intuition says you might like it.

Now, the last thing of this rather long missive is that I'm not all that great at technology. Much more of a Nature boy than a Tech geek. Anyway, I'm not sure that by posting the link to this PDF you'll be able to receive it. So, if nothing else, let me know if you didn't get it and I'll try another way.

Okay, I hope wherever you are (somewhere in Scandinavia, I believe---I have Norwegian ancestry), you have a lovely, killer weekend---ha ha, pulling on my roots as a West Coast hippie who dipped his toes into the waters of surfing for that silly adjective.

file:///C:/Users/silva/Desktop/HaaWhenua_TheEarthBreath_BilingualReo.pdf