Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
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Silence is not just the absence of noise but the presence of truth.
Can untruth exist in silence? See connections btw lying and language…..vs manipulation (non-verbal)
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‘Why do we attend to the things to which we attend?’
Harold Innis (Canadian media theorist)
As Fritjof Capra says: a machine can be controlled, a living system can only be disturbed. At best, we will find ways of carefully nudging a living system. According to Donella Meadows, we must find its leverage points, those pivots that allow us to influence system behavior. Most importantly: after each cautious inter- vention, we must patiently... See more
Understanding Living Systems
I’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of... See more
Steve Almond Tells Us
Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intellige…
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Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine in 1920, Clarice Lispector and her family emigrated to Brazil when she was an infant, fleeing pogroms (mass expelling and massacre of Jews from the Russian Empire)
Her mother died of progressive paralysis, believed to be a result of syphilis contracted from a violent rape and attack,... See more
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