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What does it mean?
Welcome the wind as a guest because it shares your experience of having no home.
In plain terms
Be kind to the wind since it has nowhere to rest like you.
What can you take from it?
Share empathy with those who are displaced.

Where it applies

  • traveling
  • homelessness
  • loneliness

Putting it to work

  • offering shelter
  • connecting with strangers
  • finding community

Questions to consider

  • Who else has no home?
  • How do you offer welcome?

Another view

It romanticizes homelessness which is often not by.

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