I've seen this before, and what I've carried with me since I saw it last was the story about the KIDS who came up with the new ideas. We're not afraid or limited by things if we don't have the map that says, "Something different---->something to avoid." How much can we learn if we work in tandem with children? If we listened to the ideas of our children, could we end wars, stop pollution, and make the positive changes that we talk about wanting so much?
This time seeing this presentation, I took away the quotes, "Whimsey matters" and "I have different negotiations with the terrain under my feet." How does our relationship with, on, and in this earth change with what we can feel of it? And, if we respond to those terrains differently in a whimsical--Aimee also uses the term, poetic--manner, then we can set ourselves up for new, creative, and effective solutions.
I saw a clip this morning on the immediate need to halt our CO2 output, or we're in for some hard times. If we don't halt, and pass the tipping point (which may have happened already), then we'll probably be able to survive, yes, but nations and people will have to get along better. Can we begin looking at the world and at the 'setbacks' like children: with curiosity, metaphors, and whimsey. Let's start, I propose, by refeeling what is important to us. How do we navigate our terrain?
YES! When we become elegantly engaged in our relating, relating is an out pouring of beauty rather than triumph, poetry rather than working really hard to be better, but a natural curiosity that leads to efficient ways of being with planet, each other and ourselves
did anybody catch the part about different lets brought different senses to her, different feelings. I'm wondering does she mean that physically or emotionally or both?
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I've seen this before, and what I've carried with me since I saw it last was the story about the KIDS who came up with the new ideas. We're not afraid or limited by things if we don't have the map that says, "Something different---->something to avoid." How much can we learn if we work in tandem with children? If we listened to the ideas of our children, could we end wars, stop pollution, and make the positive changes that we talk about wanting so much?
ReplyDeleteThis time seeing this presentation, I took away the quotes, "Whimsey matters" and "I have different negotiations with the terrain under my feet." How does our relationship with, on, and in this earth change with what we can feel of it? And, if we respond to those terrains differently in a whimsical--Aimee also uses the term, poetic--manner, then we can set ourselves up for new, creative, and effective solutions.
I saw a clip this morning on the immediate need to halt our CO2 output, or we're in for some hard times. If we don't halt, and pass the tipping point (which may have happened already), then we'll probably be able to survive, yes, but nations and people will have to get along better. Can we begin looking at the world and at the 'setbacks' like children: with curiosity, metaphors, and whimsey. Let's start, I propose, by refeeling what is important to us. How do we navigate our terrain?
YES! When we become elegantly engaged in our relating, relating is an out pouring of beauty rather than triumph, poetry rather than working really hard to be better, but a natural curiosity that leads to efficient ways of being with planet, each other and ourselves
ReplyDeletedid anybody catch the part about different lets brought different senses to her, different feelings. I'm wondering does she mean that physically or emotionally or both?
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