jeff miller

Elegance

is the word the earth uses for what she does — nothing wasted, everything in right relationship, every piece belonging.

Elegance in physics means a solution that achieves maximum effect with minimum complexity.

Not ornamentation. Not complexity. The kind of elegance that mathematicians and quilters both know — where everything unnecessary

I bring before the wisdom keepers this morning’s convergence:

A sunrise sit, bare feet on earth, naked eyes receiving first light.

A word arriving from the land: elegance.

A whisper heard: your life will be changing, your role and position in it too.

And then Laurie Brock’s quilting image — God as master quilter, fingering the scraps we thought

In Theory U we speak of the blind spot — not what leaders do or even how they do it, but the interior condition from which action emerges. What you’re describing is a shift happening at the level of that interior condition, before any outer manifestation is visible.

This is the most important moment in any transformation — the presencing before the

Type Three EnneaThought®

The Direction of Integration for Threes is Six. Going to Six can be frightening for Threes because in doing so they commit themselves to someone else, exposing themselves to the fear of being rejected. To whom and to what can you commit yourself to today? ( Personality Types, 127)

Type Nine EnneaThought®

The Direction of

That evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and cured all who were sick. Matthew 8:16

reduces a human being to a placeholder, a cartoon

recognizing the inherent dignity and preciousness of each human being

The antidote to dehumanization is rehumanization. It is to recognize the truth of the human as precious and sacred, to recognize that none of us is made of better stuff than the other, and to act from that knowledge.

Take some time for yourself: just allow yourself to be with, to see and accept whatever comes up.

Radical acceptance.

Not approval, but an allowing yourself to be with whatever is arising.

Practice transformative justice in your closest relationships. Choose patience, communication, mediation, curiosity, boundaries, and uprooting harm over cancellation, public humiliation, ghosting people, or other methods of disposing of people. The more you practice it personally, the more you will be able to support others through it politically