Our work is increasing living…
Our work is increasing the amount of living in the world—that only happens in conversation.
:- Doug.
Archive for June 15th, 2009
Keep thinking of the flow of betweens and meetings…
Keep thinking of flow of betweens and meetings, so that we can see how we might nurture new life, new habits and adaptations.
:- Doug.
If we were edges of somethings…
We are agglomerations of edges. Edges on many sides, since humans have different kinds of sides, nothing squared off, except perhaps some pieces of our minds.
What would it mean to see humans as edges of somethings? Say edges of thoughts, edges of actions, edges of movements? We are certainly collections of many things: thoughts, emotions, animality. And when we meet, we create borders, spaces between, where new laws—habits and adaptations—can arise. If they are good, if they are pleasant, if they attract us, they can keep arising. Each time they arise, they become more substantial, increase in strength.
So we are creating ways for life to emerge, and we can do this consciously, purposely, where before when we could not see it seemed to happen by chance. The new life we now know is in the betweens. It needs borders and good shape and positive space—lots of things which we can use to nourish life.
:- Doug.
–the boundary–is where the work gets done…
The walls of the lung extract from air
pass to blood, release carbon dioxide
the flood plain nourishes life
though its laws are neither land nor river
Where the two meet
—the boundary—
is where
the work gets done
different laws apply
new things happen
that could not on either side
:- Doug.
