Artists sometimes train themselves to see by drawing the “negative space” around the object. So instead of drawing the face, they draw (look at) the edge of the face where it meets the air. There may be a door jamb behind and still partially visible—how is it cut off from view by the face? So too we can get a closer picture of our life if we look at where it intersects others, contacts with, obscures, or gives light to them.
:- Doug.
We see the beast in front of us—the Internet—and how it is changing not only our lives but the way we think, even our spirituality. We meet and count as friends and good people folks from other countries we never hope to visit.
But in all this we miss the little beasties nipping at our toes. And these stand to make the bigger change, a transformation unseen until nearly complete. A change in how we see and interrelate with organizations and each other. I speak of the “smart” things all around us—phones of course, but auto engines, credit cards, implanted chips in our pets and hearts and brains. What our beasties do is pancake our world. Everything that matters is more and more people and connections and info. Everything that matters is everything. So too we will come to think of our organizations—we will see beyond walls and silos, beyond sales and customers and suppliers and friend and enemy. The little beasties are doing this to us.
:- Doug.
Love them. They are little children in adult clothes, just like the rest of us.
:- Doug.
I’ve been around the block a few times. So now maybe I should try the next block over or the next.
:- Doug.
Don’t see people in their underwear: see them as little children. Then love them.
:- Doug.
When silos echo down each other
and across borders we speak humanly
we become
:- Doug.
What we must do now is increase the proportion of humans to people.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1439
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Little children some called their adult friends. That is what we are—balls of fear, fun, and all the subtle and gross realities in between. These people we can understand. These people we can love.
:- Doug.
Friend, many to help, much to do, must get off my cushion and into you now.
:- Doug.
Let us turn the grey cloth vision: examine what is outside the cloth, what is coming to us, from us, what’s next. Initially I saw in our age the whole is obscured. We do not see how we already have ligaments running from one to another, gathering us. We are poking a few holes and some are catching glimpses. It remains for us to call to the beloved community, call us to see us.
:- Doug.
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