- “The impulse comes to gather. The quality of how we are together, how we talk, this is our gift to the world, a breezy assembly of friends passing quickly through themselves into absence. We feel continuously amazed by the company we keep and how it keeps changing. The purpose of every gathering is discovered: to recognize beauty and to love what is beautiful. Conversation rises out of every particle. It is all alive. We live within love, yet we run away. We do not know why. This is no ordinary friendship. Come to the empty table, a cleared place where something can happen. When you take the hand of someone you love, what do those hands become? Waterbirds rise from one lake to find another. What does it mean to give up the soul? A river in spring flood, and we are the sun, all those varieties of light. Rumi’s invitation is still current.”- Coleman Barks
KAW Council: When we started the Kansas Area Watershed Council in 1982, we envisioned this community growing and lasting over 100 years. We’ve made it to age 30 now, one of the oldest bioregional groups on the continent. We explore, protect and celebrate the prairie and local culture. We’ve offered workshops, weekend gatherings, special programs, classes and performances since 1982, and we’ve been primary organizers in the continental bioregional movement, and we published two decades of a bioregional journal, Konza, and Ken Lassman’s Seasons & Cycles and Wild Douglas County. A generation of KAW kids grew up with a close connection to the earth. We invite you to come grow with us for generations to come!
