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So I’ve been trying to figure out what I want to say about this past weekend. Like I mentioned in my last post, I spent the time as part of a group out in Washington D.C. who met to re-imagine the future of Emergent Village. But as simple as it was beforehand to say that I was going to help discuss the future of EV, it is much more difficult to express what actually happened. I know there are a lot of people wanting to know what we all decided - what the future will hold so to speak. But hard concrete decisions were not what came from this time. Oh, we have direction, and vision, and momentum from which such decisions will form in the near future - but no descending from the mountaintop proclamation. Not that it was ever that sort of gathering to begin with. And while there were some great conversations about ideas and possibilities (which I am still personally processing and will trickle out here over time), I think I should share a bit about the structure of this gathering and the more personal impact it held.... READ MORE.