how things hold together
Tomorrow morning is a vast realm of possibility. Ten minutes from now is a vast realm of possibility. Both are blooming through a tangle of threads behind this moment that are shifting each other. A change in the tone of voice in a conversation opens the possibility for humor, and a tiny shift and gesture opens the possibility for several future
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It takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal version, or seemingly "objective" or professional version will pop into modeling and mapping, and lose the necessary tangibility of the details – thus losing access to the realms of possibility to meet
... See moreinfrastructure policy must move from engineering certainty to engineering adaptability : investing in systems that can recombine and renew themselves without systemic disruption. The infrastructural state must become a learning system — one that continuously provisions stability through change, not against it.
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
Robin Beers • What Story Is Your Organization Becoming?
Possibility is nourishing nectar. Every drop is needed to meet the multisystemic stuckness. Yet that possibility is caged in plans. Paying attention in this era requires a loosening.
Nora Bateson, Combining
The tone of action in context, alters possibility.
The possibility pesticide of rationality within the existing system will likely monocrop the awaiting ecology of potentialities.
The familiar is not the only way, but it is in fact, the way to keep the unnamed unfound, unseen possibilities in exile. That which does not make sense can be called
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