GL: I'm not sure.
Gaia: Did you notice how patient the Elders at the Parliament in Salt Lake City are? That is because their people are old by your standards of time-keeping. For many generations they have been experiencing what you are just beginning to experience, disintegration of their way of life. What you call climate change and the threat of nuclear annihilation, to the Indigenous peoples, are no worse to contemplate than what they have already suffered in their recent histories. Did you ask them how they have managed to survive these last few centuries?
GL: Not explicitly, no.
Gaia: They have survived by praying to their ancestors and to me. Also they know the importance of giving back. The land underneath Salt Lake City is the land of their ancestors. Instead of being angry about that, they draw strength from that knowledge.
GL: Maybe they are so patient because they know those glass and marble towers will not last forever and soon things will return to balance!
Gaia: I don't think that is their hope grandchild. Their patience is more immediate. They want what you want in your heart of hearts. You want what they want. They want things to be good. They are just clearer about what that means. Nobody hopes for cities full of people to fall.
GL: Maybe they want things to return to what life was like before the cities were built.
Gaia: But that will never happen. That is what a child would want.
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