I am sitting in seat 32 of a bus I didn’t plan to take. This is an accident. However, 32 is my lucky number, so let’s say it is a happy accident. I sat here without knowing I was choosing my lucky number. And so it goes. We often don’t even know when happy accidents [...]
Truth, Lies, and Age. Geez, when was the last time I lied about my age? Probably when I was 20 passing for 21. Or maybe 16 passing for 20. The truth is, I always wanted to be older. Older was more interesting, more sophisticated, and less…. well less naive.
I grew up in a small town. [...]
photo credit: Swami Stream
I have sent you my invitation,
the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living.
Don’t jump up and shout, “Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!”
Just stand up quietly and dance with me.
Show me how you follow your deepest desires,
spiralling down into the ache within [...]
photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
What does success look like in a thrivable system?
Perhaps success looks like happiness! Figuring out the characteristics of a thrivable system might be looking for systems where there is happiness.
And how do you know if there is happiness? Well as my friend Sian claims in his email sig. “If you [...]
Thrivability is all about the intentful creation of upward spirals, positive feedback loops between elements that are generative of diverse, adaptive abundance. This is true both for the design of the ecological aspect of systems, as well as for the social aspect of systems.
