A Tale for Tomorrow

orchard and vegetable garden, seemed to them to be perfectly terrestrial and natural and exempt of any ambiguity. From the youngest to the eldest, they each and all had a clear sense of a sort of commitment which resonated within them, without any word or any kind of reference and this was acting as a mute guidance.

There was a sort of recognition.

Little by little their various forays became more organized; in relation to precise objectives: to collect firewood, to gather grain and seeds, to inventory edible plants, to set up individual retreats – either within the mansion or in the woods -, but, without ever talking about it, they all chose to return to the common room and sleep in it every night. Each one felt the need to be at once unreservedly given and entirely open and, midst the constant whirl of impressions and perceptions, to learn to orient oneself and to respond as truthfully as one could. And each one thus sensed as a necessity to try and contribute what one was uniquely able to, without any calculation or arrogance, for each one was discovering oneself as the holder of an inestimable treasure, of which one was the sole guardian and keeper, a treasure which yet belonged to all, to everyone‟s future. And in this way certainly many days and nights must have passed, but the tension that had been lodged in their previous existences little by little disappeared or was dissolved and this was a liberation they could not have suspected was possible in their earlier state; that habitual

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