|   Earthfolk 
              are those who imagine the everlasting Living Earth as forever hearth 
              and home. 
            The Living Earth 
              is us. We are lively manifestations, presences of the Living Earth. 
              We are its consciousness, its imagining: the Living Earth's passion. 
               
            The Living Earth 
              is hearth and we the flaming breath of fire. 
            The Living Earth
                   makes present our nurturing parents, Mother and Father. 
            We are full-flesh 
              in blood and gasp birthed from the Living Earth: seed, flower, bloom, 
              and fade. Most majestically are we imagined again, as such whole 
              and precious.  
            Earthfolk are 
              forever presences. As child are we now. As family are we through 
              time. As Earthfolk are we everlastingly present. Everything which 
              is: has been and will be.  
            Every person 
              counts. Everyone is a Beloved: literally, symbolically and mystically. 
               
            We live in the 
              Now as individuals. In History/Time as symbolic, ritualized beings. 
              In eternity as the communal, mystical meWe of Family:Forever. 
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