"it’s great that yoga has spread here, but i fear you have all missed the point"

back in october, i was catching up with my friend, huma, and amidst our expansive conversation, she relayed something her uncle said and it stung (in a good way). paraphrasing, he (a punjabi man) said:

life is fractal: i want to work with people who understand that

in several areas of my life, there are groups of people i’m in conversation with about the difference between interpersonal dynamics and system dynamics.

daniel kahneman: experiencing self vs remembering self

something else that stuck out to me in daniel kahneman’s episode of on being was his thinking and research about the experiencing self and the remembering self. some of it still doesn’t quite sit right with me, but i believe it.

practicing emergent strategy: change is constant. be like water.

last week, during our boston sunday session with adrienne maree brown, we did an activity where we somatically developed an understanding of how we individually and collectively dealt with change. there were definitely interesting lessons about the collective, but one of the takeaways for me was that i generally deal with unexpected change poorly. this i knew, but it was funny to see it show up somatically.

the lakota people's definition of sustainability

“…honoring those who came before us. Meeting the needs of the present generation, not compromising the future so that the coming generations are able to meet their own needs and guide our vision and renew each cycle of life.”