Perhaps with time permitting a little reflection it is prudent to clarify the intents and purposes of the Treehouse community.

This is a conversation.

Your conversation.

A conversation about what’s happening, but more importantly about ‘why’ it’s happening, whatever the happening appears to be.

If you peel back all the visible layers (amid the storylines), placed by the people and organizations participating in the various happenings, you will eventually find a single set of ideological truths.

All of the “fundamental change-isms” are about filling voids. More directly, the layers of time present as people, like bricklayers, trying desperately to fill voids from the outside in.

The substance of filler may take on this type of formula: If we take from them, and give to them-others, then things will be better…..  Or, if we take from them, and give to ourselves, we will be better…… Or, if we can only just make them _______ !

But it, all of it, revolves around the perception of not having something, and the perception of needing something external.

Rarely will you find anyone talking about what creates the void that everyone is busy trying to fill. Even rarer still, is anyone talking about filling the void from the inside out. It is all about “fixing it” from the perspective of “filling it”.

The methods of filling are the events that take up the media reports and oxygen of the day.

Take the George Zimmerman case as an example. The void within Trayvon Martin was the void of purpose, direction and sense of place in the world. His magnetic North was never established, it was never presented by his family. So his compass not only was useless, it was non-existent.

So yes, in a sense President Obama was correct. If Obama had a son he might have looked like Trayvon, but more importantly he probably would have acted like Trayvon, because Obama can relate to the absence of Magnetic North. He never had one either.

Barry Soetero used the compasses of others. So too did young Mr. Martin.

Both POTUS and Trayvon are/were young men, who became older men, without countries. Countries being defined as purpose, meaning, goals, beliefs, standards and directions, laws and rules, on a path to an actual life of accomplishment of something which builds upon the first foundational block set by Mom and Dad – Magnetic North.

Building upon something already established as the primary point of reference.

The cornerstone, your Magnetic North, is the most important building block laid in place. It is only with this internal cornerstone in place that you can build your home, your internal home. Without the care of the cornerstone placement eventually the weakness of the structure becomes visible. The further you go on building, the more crooked the structure being built.

It doesn’t matter how much you try to correct along the way for the mistake in the origin, you can never compensate accurately enough for it. The emotional foundation is crooked, subsequently all further building will be out of plumb.

The only correction that works is to knock down the entire construct, establish a correct cornerstone, and begin again. With a True Magnetic North identified, this time the plumb-line will be accurate with all of the check-along-the-way bubbles centered and the structure stable. You have a solid frame of reference that is just as reliable as the first.

Just like in building a structure, emotional voids are created when the builder chooses to ignore the fact the cornerstone is not set or established correctly.

Looking back the thought of tearing down all of this building seems too much to bear. Consequently the builder refuses to tear down all the previous effort – the task too daunting.

Yet, within these voids are the structural weaknesses.

Subsequently, as we ignore, little of the future effort is expended in actually building up, and all the future effort is expended trying desperately to shore up what has already been invested in.

Life becomes a series of compensations for the original flaw.

As time continues, and the construct grows, the forward effort becomes exponentially tiring because it requires more exponential effort.

The actual voids in the structure, that require filling, grow; and as they grow they need more filling. And so it goes – and so it goes.

Our treehouse conversation is about identifying these voids -most of which are being desperately covered up by the builders- then looking far back to the construction to see where the building first became eschew, later discussing what the future of construction will look like if the original flaws are never repaired.

Identifying the root flaw, the exact moment when the decision to ignore the plumb was established, is precisely why we, as a community, have a recognized uncanny capability to predict the future arrival before it actually arrives.

This “root flaw” is also the most difficult to identify. It requires far more effort than a visual glance – and its exposure is openly, and aggressively, opposed by everyone who benefits from hiding it.

Personally I never knew how desperate the hiding would be until a visit to Virginia to talk to a community relations spokesperson for a Virginia police department. It was during that conversation when I first heard a public official say, in a very open and direct way, that “digging up details” about what’s really behind the motives could actually lead to personal harm.

It’s one thing to hear rumor of it, and to hear people talk in abstract terms about it, but it’s quite another thing entirely to face it.

Where exactly does that put the ordinary person amid the confluence of evil interests?

Those evil doers we began to describe as ‘shadow dwellers’.

We have encountered the full strength of the shadow dwellers, we have actually bore witness to them as they disregard any sense of fear in how they threaten.

It’s an unusual America around us now – at times it does not bear even a slight resemblance to the nation of laws we once knew her to be.

Standing in a parking lot watching your car go up in smoke because they know there’s not a damned thing you can actually do about it is worrisome enough. Knowing the fire was begun by the very people we assign to protecting and serving while entrusting them to uphold honest definitions of law is far beyond ordinary worry.

So the conversation continues. Resolute. Because we are not alone – we just can’t be.

Right is right even if nobody does it, and wrong is wrong even if everybody does it.

When that very simple concept is dispatched – then hope is diminished.

Until then, we will not participate in the diminishment – we choose the alternative, to fight back.

Steadfast !