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The word 'co mmunication ’ is derived from the Latin root 'communis', which means ‘common, public, shared by all or many'. Like blood in a body, sap in a plant or water in a river, communication keeps things moving, and holds the potential to share messages and meanings in new and relevant ways.
Practices • Bioregional Learning Centre
“Every conversation, as its foundation, has an invitation in it. When the invitation stops, the conversation really stops.”
— David Whyte
Tim Ferriss • David Whyte, Poet — Spacious Ease, Irish Koans, Writing in Delirium, and Revelations From a Yak Manger
... See moreIn a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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I invite you into this ecology of communication. Pick the flowers, pee in the bushes, throw the stones, watch the clouds, sleep in the shade, and eat the fruit. I welcome you to wriggle and scratch in these pages and find rest and revolution.
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At first, it appears that it is the parts of the system that must be made better or fixed.
Then, it becomes clear that the system is not in the parts — it is in the relationships between them.
So, it seems like it is the relationships that need to be made better or fixed.
But relationships, it turns out, are made of communication.
And then —
The communi
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Although a few of these pieces have been previously published in other places, I never meant for any of them to stand alone. Nothing in an ecology stands alone.
It is necessary to have an ensemble of all sorts of communication to meet ecology—intellectual, emotional, storied, non-verbal, and physical. The communications must be diverse enough to mee
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Both communication and community have the same Latin root, communicare , meaning to impart, share, or make common.