yesterday was the third in a series of three salons hosted by my friend, cyndi, about her forthcoming book about power and play. it’s epic, both in terms of its concision and its breadth. it’s going to be a big deal when it comes out and i’ve been learning a ton from it.
Read more...back in mid-july i had a great, wandering convo with a work colleague and one of the topics we discussed was the interrelated nature of reality. the latest research in several fields, including neuroscience and astrophysics, is pointing to one truth: nothing in the universe exists in isolation. everything is in relationship. subatomic particles, human identities, and more; these things all exist in relationship.
Read more...the other day i had dinner with my little (fratnernity) brother and we went back on an idea that i’ve been coming to believe more and more. he pushed me on it (which is something i appreciate about our relationship, we don’t let shit slide with each other) and it helped me clarify this idea into something i firmly believe now.
Read more...so this tree analogy has so much utility. as i was saying yesterday, another way that i often use the tree analogy is with an individual person. i often think about myself in this way, but it seems to have been somewhat helpful other as well.
Read more...biomimicry fascinates me. to that end, i have learned from folks (the gainesville catholic worker, curtis ogden, danielle coates-connor, adrianne maree brown) to think and model things after nature (i mean, aren’t we nature?). i’d like to learn more about mushrooms and mycelium magic, but at the moment, i often use trees as a powerful metaphor for describing nodes in systems. this is the first of two posts about tree as node metaphor: today for an organization’s communications systems and tomorrow, for an individual.
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