Archive for March 9th, 2012

when families/come together

Good happens
when families
come together

:- Doug.

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Losing the resilience of our country

Peggy Holman writes in Engaging Emergence: “I think of resilience as a plateau upon which the system can play, performing its normal functions in safety. A resilient system has a big plateau, a lot of space over which it can wander, with gentle, elastic walls that will bounce it back, if it comes near a dangerous edge. As a system loses its resilience, its plateau shrinks, and its protective walls become lower and more rigid, until the system is operating on a knife-edge, likely to fall off in one direction or another whenever it makes a move.”

This speaks to our current political space, where each group of politicians is trying to circumscribe the space for the “debate.” Each pulls in the walls tighter, hoping to leave only room for itself and not the other. It is no wonder so many of the candidates seem to be “going over the edge.”

So how do we, mere mortals and not politicians, work to add more space, more resilience to our political climate? Is Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC one way? Could we open space in a community or on Twitter or through Journalism that Matters or some other way to bring resilience? Who cares?

Maybe that is the real question facing us: do we care what happens to our politics, to our country?

The question is, is there enough resilience for us to live, as a people to be alive? “Without vision the people perish,” yet what is our common vision? Do we have anything in common, or must we give in to the despair the politicians are spreading? Where does our politics leave room for spirit?

:- Doug.

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Good happens when/we come together

Good happens when
we come together

:- Doug.

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Consider:

Consider:
look to
the stars
with you

:- Doug.

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