possibility studies
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 moreThe 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
... See more“I shall act always to increase possibility.” — Heinz von Foerster
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
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
... See morePossibility is precious. It is also alive. How might it be to hold possibility as something that visits unexpectedly, something that whispers in foreign languages, something that is sacred?
Nora Bateson, Combining
It is just that easy to open—or to limit—possibility. The approach, the tone, the details matter.
The approach is seeking—not to lock down a particular direct corrective, although those are necessary at times—but instead to include the nth-order—the ecological habit of change that changes change and keeps changing. There is a realm of "possible"
... See morePeople are not roles. "Finding a way" is about the unique possibilities that occur in relationship between particular people, in that particular water, on that particular day. There is no formula, no method; this realm of possibility is accessed through a sentiment of human care and imagination.
Nora Bateson, Combining
Numbers are just numbers; they cannot source possibilities from each other or find a way when the basic arithmetic says there is none—people can. Abstracting the solutions to numbers inherently dehumanizes and unnecessarily constrains the spectrum of possibilities. The metric logic removes the human breadth of experience and relationship. This cold
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