THE RURBAN FRINGE

Beware the Status Quo

“You don’t have to like change to take advantage of it.”
- Seth Godin

Living Backwards

Are you a heyoka?
The Lakota tradition of the heyoka – a contrarian or ’sacred clown’ – fits in well with the concept of community-building, as heyokas were those in the tribe charged with challenging people’s thinking and shaking up the status quo.
At a sundance, a heyoka might dance backwards around the young men, or sashay [...]