Circularity
A Complex System That Works Is Invariably Found To Have Evolved From A Simple System That Worked.
Systemantics (1975) by John Gall
09-OCT
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Tag Archives: red
07-OCT
Outer Space
What you can do or think you can do, begin it.
For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
GOETHE (Mehr Licht!)
05-OCT
Gathering
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.
Salman Rushdie
01-OCT
Conversation
Affirmation mode requires saying something positive.
e.g., I love “hearing the answer!“
Affirmation format makes a negative expression into a positive affirmation.
e.g., I love everything about “waiting for the answer”!
24-SEP
Flourish
End-of-Summer Colors
Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness.
WWW:WAKE by Robert Sawyer
07-SEP
Brotherhood
Should we look at our current apocalyptic moment as an opportunity to learn and shore up our vulnerabilities so that we can survive and thrive in these increasingly apocalyptic times?
A Field Guild To the Apocalypse (2024) by Athena Aktipis
31-AUG
Community
Liberal & conservative are terms used – not to think – but to avoid thinking. You can classify anything as liberal or conservative, then simply declare yourself as being one or the other. All your thoughts for the rest of your life can be a knee jerk.
10-AUG
Sportsman
On his way from Nevada to the Raceway at Laguna Seca in California.
The wheel is driven or forced by means of its engine or motor. The energy is not in the wheel which is passive to this driving agent. So it is with every manifestation of energy; and with every human motivation – it has its human impulse or impelling motive to impart motion.
THE WORD – A PHILOSOPHY (1958) by Edna Sarah Beardsley (re: power)
“In the face of the danger which confronts our time, no individual retains, or can hope to retain, the right of personal choice which free men enjoy in times of peace.” –FDR (1940)
NOTHING TO FEAR by Alan Axelrod (2003)