SEELEY LAKE - We had our last storytelling in mid-June of 2022. We are exceedingly pleased with last year’s events and hope you were pleased as well.
Our goal, as always, is finding common values.
Last year, over 40 participants told their stories, to an appreciative audience at the foundation building and there were more than 200 viewers on the Pathfinder Facebook website. We are so impressed with how our community turned out to listen to their friends, their neighbors, and folks they may not have known. Why is this important? Because each of our stories form the fabric of our community. Weaving together those stories, we discover our common values. Common values are the glue that bind us together.
Those stories revealed how important this valley is to all of us and how blessed we are for the people that have joined with us to keep it special. “The place and the people” have been the most common values expressed. The beauty of this place and the desire to keep it as we found it. And then the people. We are a community that cares about each other. We are a friendly people. Friendly to each other and to visitors. Friendships made here are long lasting. These are fundamental values that are foundational in bringing us together. There are others. By continuing to listen to each other more glue will be added, and our community will be stronger by it. So, we are going to keep telling our stories as we continue to ferret out our common values.
As a community listening to each other we are better able to appreciate and respect different attitudes, different positions, and different opinions. Remember, each of our opinions and positions reflect our individual backgrounds and experience. We can’t fully understand others various opinions and positions unless we are willing to try to look thru their eyes. To attempt to walk the path they walked to reach their conclusions. Truly listening allows us to open that door and common values allow us to pause from our heartfelt positions to focus on what is in front of us, “this place and it’s people”.
Our hope is, as we get into 2023, we can meld these sessions of listening into “kitchen sink” or kitchen table” discussions where we participate in meaningful, respectful dialogue focusing on those values that bring us together. Stay tuned and thanks for listening.
Our next storytelling event will be the evening of February 1st, 7:00 pm at the Community Foundation building. Three folks that have agreed to tell their stories so far are Roger and Joan Harbin and Carla Zell Schade. Snacks will be available.
If you can’t make it to the Foundation Building, the storytelling is again being zoomed on the Pathfinder Facebook page.
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