Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing through other patterns

The skin of my body provides what looks like a boundary around me, but ‘I’ extend well beyond the container of my flesh, both biologically and socially.

It is not difficult to see that delivery of data in graphs depicting statistical breakdown of the gathered information implies a methodology. What is not so obvious is the meta-message that life is clear and definable.

We are normalized into an unworkable imbalance, forever tearing the world into pieces and reifying the need to grasp each answer, each ‘solution,’ and freeze it.

The thing about numbers is that they pretend to be ‘objective,’ they carry a tone of ‘facts & figures,’ when in fact they are objectifying and are much more slippery in the stories they carry than poetry.

I would love to see the authenticity of a negotiation rhetoric that does not beget rigid binary positions, without a winner and a loser, something wider please….

To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature, and ideas.

Looking ahead we must ask: Who do we want to be in this transforming world? Who are we, now? … And what of Humanity?

This great work is not a job, it is not a way to gain prestige, nor a book deal—it is a way of staving off the pain and suffering that come with being human. It is learning to learn, both within and about the systems that are inside and outside ourselves, micro, macro, biological, and social. More importantly, it is a way of seeing.

otherwise. I thought that since we came from the same culture and spoke the same language we would and should have less confusion about one another’s intentions. On closer inspection, this was not the case at all.

The deepening of our understanding of how the vast variables and interactions in the natural world are functioning will inform our actions; it will inform our ethics, our choices, and our epistemological frame. Take out the vast variables and replace them with oneness, and you lose the differences, the information, the aesthetics of interaction, th