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THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA March
March came.The sixth quarterly consultation happened on a Wednesday in the third week.The new format. Joint sessions rather than presentation and response. Kweku had spent a month preparing the council members. I had spent a month preparing Efua and Kofi. Charlotte had updated the coordination documentation to reflect the changed format. Adaeze had noted in the translation that the oldest sections described something similar to what Kweku was proposing, the keeper representatives working alongside governance rather than reporting to it, and had added the relevant passage to the consultation materials.We drove to the central territory on a Tuesday evening. Staying the night so the Wednesday morning started without the fatigue of a four hour drive.The coordination hall at nine.Twelve council members. Five keeper representatives. Me. Efua. Kofi. Nana on the communication device from her territory because her specific knowledge of the bond health work there was relevant to two of the
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA What February Brings
February came.The territory cold and the work steady and the ordinary days doing what ordinary days did.Charlotte finished the documentation of the coordination function in the second week. She brought it to me on a Thursday morning. Twenty pages. Dense and specific. What the function was and how it differed from the center function and what abilities indicated someone might carry it and how to develop it through training.I read it over a day.Then I took it to Adaeze.She read it over two days.Then we sat in the small study together."She is precise," Adaeze said."Yes," I said."The distinction she draws between holding the whole and holding the connections is accurate," she said. "I could not have drawn it more clearly myself." She paused. "She understands her own function better than most people understand theirs.""She has been paying attention," I said."Yes," Adaeze said. "That is what she does." She paused. "The documentation goes in the charter alongside the center functi
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA The New Year
January came.The seventh year.I stood at the kitchen window on the first morning and looked at the grounds and the hall in the winter light and did not try to make the moment into anything. It was just a morning. The first of the year. The territory doing what territories did regardless of what the calendar said.The work continuing.That was the truest thing about the seventh year beginning. Not arrival at something. Continuation. The path going forward the way it had always gone forward. One step at a time. The next step visible when you were close enough.Dane came downstairs and made coffee and stood beside me at the window.We did not speak for a while."What does the seventh year need," he said eventually.I had been thinking about this since before the new year. Not anxiously. Just paying attention to what was present and what was still forming."The five remaining territory engagements fully formalised," I said. "Two of them are close." I paused. "The consultation relationsh
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA December
The fourth solstice fell on a Friday.We gathered in the hall at nine in the evening. The Blackwood community and the representatives who had come from other territories. Smaller gathering than the previous year. Not because the network was smaller. Because the communities at the other halls were doing their own solstice checks now. Not every territory coming to Blackwood. Each hall holding its own.The network checking in with itself from all its points simultaneously.That was the shift.The previous solstices had been the check happening from Blackwood outward. This one was the check happening everywhere at once and the center receiving what came back.I felt it differently because of that.Not me reaching out to find the other halls.The other halls present in the frequency without me reaching.Fourteen voices.The center receiving all of them.I sat in the center hall and let the full combined frequency settle around me and felt the specific quality of each site. The future readi
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA November
November came.Cold mornings now. The hall warm against them. The work continuing with the steadiness of the sixth year's particular rhythm.Kade and Sola got formally bonded on a Saturday in the first week of November.No large ceremony. That was not who they were. A small gathering in the packhouse hall. The people who mattered. Adaeze and me and Dane and Charlotte and Efua and Kofi. The carriers from the accommodation buildings who had become the community around them. Rhen. A few pack members who had known them both for years.Sola wore something simple and looked exactly like herself.Kade looked at her the way he had been looking at her for two years without performing anything about it.When it was done he said, "Week two. I called it week two."Sola said, "You took four months to say anything.""I was processing," he said."You were being an idiot," she said."Lovingly," he said.She looked at him for a moment."Lovingly," she agreed.I stood beside Dane and felt the bond and
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA October Again
October came to Blackwood territory.The sixth October. The trees changing the way they changed every year. The light going low and golden. The hall catching the afternoon light in the upper windows.I was in the hall when Adaeze found me on a Wednesday morning.She sat in the corner. The book closed in her hands.I waited."I want to talk to you about something," she said. "Not about the network. Not about the institution." She paused. "About you."I looked at her."Yes," I said."You have been building for five and a half years," she said. "The urgent work and then the sustaining work and now the deepening work." She paused. "I watch you every day and the work is good and the direction is right." She paused. "And you are carrying it well." She paused. "I want to ask whether you are carrying it fully. Not the work. You."I sat with the question."What do you mean," I said."You arrived here with one bag and a plan to be invisible," she said. "And the path asked you to be the opposite
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA The Second Solstice
December came.The second winter since I had arrived with one bag and a plan to be invisible.The territory settled into its cold the way it always did. The trees bare now. The light going by four in the afternoon. The hall holding its warmth from the fires in the smaller rooms and the old stones d
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA The Second Solstice
December came.The second winter since I had arrived with one bag and a plan to be invisible.The territory settled into its cold the way it always did. The trees bare now. The light going by four in the afternoon. The hall holding its warmth from the fires in the smaller rooms and the old stones d
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA The Oldest Site
The circle on the hill listened.I told them the same things I had told everyone. What the sensitivity was. Why some of them felt what they felt in this place. What the foundation stones held. What the original community had built here and why and what had happened to it.The oldest woman, whose na
THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA What Kofi Adu Finds
Aba's first week was quiet.Not because she was withdrawn. Just because she was absorbing. Seven years of managing something alone and then arriving here and finding twelve other people who carried the same thing and the hall and the training and Adaeze and all of it at once. It was a significant a
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