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PART 1. When we gather in spaces like this, to me it’s more than just conversation. It’s a braiding, a bringing together of many strands, many lives, many journeys into something stronger than any of us could hold alone. There is power in being witnessed, in speaking our struggles out loud, in allowing others to reflect what we sometimes cannot see in ourselves. This is the work of living knowledge, not just gathering information, but embodying it, integrating it, allowing it to shape us. A question arose today: Can lessons be truly learned through others without experiencing them firsthand? This is one of the great tensions of human learning. We can be told of fire, we can see it in pictures, we can listen to stories of those who have touched it, but until our skin has felt its heat, we do not know fire. And yet, does that mean we must burn ourselves every time to learn? No. This is where community comes in. This is why we gather. Through shared experience, we do not have to carry every lesson alone. We can borrow wisdom, not as something memorized, but as something felt in the body, something held in the heart. Elders pass down stories not to be repeated word for word but to be lived, transformed through time, applied in new ways. The mistake of modern learning is thinking knowledge exists only in the mind. True wisdom is something lived through the body, spoken through the heart, and carried through the hands.