Did we awake from the stupor that can consume our lives — lost amidst bits & bytes, screens & feeds — and find ourselves, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “in a street full of splendid strangers?”
The idea is not that we will win in our own lifetimes and that’s the measure of us, but that we will die trying.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
Stopping puts some space in your long haul. Rest is a way of being. Pacing is recalibrated care. ~Pato Hebert
Last night G stepped into a conversation between R and M. The problem that R was expressing to M was exactly the same problem G was experiencing.
It seemed R and G might commiserate to find the right solution for both of them. Any answers found would be to their mutual benefit.
But, because, M and R were on one team and G was on a distinctly different team, G was outside of R & M’s coupling and so, easy to dismiss.
The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.
During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.
But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:
With 3 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his team down 16-17, Ravens (#9) kicker Justin Tucker swung his leg with as much power as he could and broke the record for the longest field goal in league history, a 66-yarder that bounced off the crossbar and into the net.
Then, in the decades of the Twenty First Century, one after another ten-years burning down the road.
Would you like to buy one of these?
Me too!
They might be found on the discounted thrift shelf by now.
No matter how far we have veered from reverence for the miraculous fact that we exist in a universe that we don’t understand, until we stop getting to dawn, we get a chance to start over.
David Milch
Use chess tactics to thrive in the face of incalculable complexities and unexpected change.
The basic principles of good play – get a big idea, use it to build an advantage, improve it, swap it out for a new one, move quickly, see what happens, make a new plan, and move again – works on a professional level just as they do in corporate warfare.
Three Moves Ahead – Bob Rice