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.

Evolution is what happens when patterns that used to define survival become deadly.

It seems to me the ultimate act of love is to allow ourselves and others to be complex. In affection and respect, I try never to pin down, sum up, pigeon-hole, label, or otherwise reduce myself or any other living system to a singular tag.

To see something, which you are sure can only be interpreted one way, being interpreted in another is a phenomenon that all of us need practice in.

A clarity without ambiguity is one in which we are all asking the wrong questions.

In what circumstances can a ‘something’ be of economic value without being commodified, objectified, exploited? Can we imagine an economy that does not commodify life?

Since our culture has a penchant for mechanistic thinking, it will seek mechanistic versions of systems thinking. And, conversely, since our culture seeks to fill the hole that science dug where religion used to hold the soil in place, unrigorous forms of systems thinking will offer explanation through mystery. In both cases, what is lost is the ab

Complexity does not divide itself, and therefore life requires calibration within multiple streams of information and interaction.

Apocalypse is a linear idea, and we do not live in a linear world.