[Springboard] So. we are started

[James Wiegel]

Jim Wiegel's draft


THE TASK  (Contradiction?)
Based on the conversation of today and thinking
leading up to it, the task, yet, is to be the
sensitive and responsive part of society and, one
might add to care for and grow that sensitive and
responsive part.  

A bit like the East German movie we saw, "The Lives of
Others", it ain't easy bein' the sensitive and
responsive part, certainly not long enough to truly
change something.  If you get too knowing and
scientific about it (even if you are trying to grow
it), you wipe out, or repress the turmoil involved. 
On the other hand, if you get too fascinated or
interested in it, give too much affirmation or
support, you get sex, drugs and rock n roll.  From the
sensitive, responsive side, it is precisely the
pressure of what is going on that is the ground of
sensitive, responsive innovation.  

Yet, at the same time, (and I have this as a quote) 
-- the drama and power of this s/r activity is
precisely because it has to be genuinely inventive and
at the same time reach a market, like a movie for
success.  This is the social dynamic of change, the
philosophy of revolution that is evolving here . . . 
economics is a dynamic = no stability, but gaining
competency, connection and wealth to move forward,
politics is a dynamic, culture is a dynamic, ecology
is a dynamic

What is calling you forth?
I get out of bed in the morning for the chance to do
something that day that somehow participates in the
great drama unfolding about me -- my house, my patch
of ground, the universe of my connection
electronically, some organization, some training, some
great thought.

Who else do you work with?
Partners in Participation and the Community of
Practice in the Southwest connected with it
Judy and the kids and the grandkids and the relatives
and their lives and connections
Community of Practice in the Southwest
The Set of my connected clients
The ToP Trainers
The Network of ICA's around the world
This order diaspora
Whoever is around me

What are they expecting of you?
(now) capture their stories somehow, put them in a
story??
deliver facilitation services, and training
bring my being to some enlivenment in theirs 
Meet them as human beings with greatness and deliver
some additional greatness that certifiably helps the
situation (= is worth paying for)

then (my, my, my, my)

FORM  (What is the form we are trying to invent?
We are trying to invent a form that gives full mythic
weight to what we are involved in as a species, each
of us, and that releases our mystery, depth and
greatness

I am looking across the room at the old LENS quotes,
hand written on posters, that Marianna Bailey brought
(I guess she has kept them all these years . . .
We anticipate more or less clearly our entire future
at every moment
We have arrived at an historical vantage point where
the wasteland ends and human wholeness and fulfillment
begins
At the edge of history, the future is blowing wildly
in our faces, sometimes brightening the air and
sometimes blinding us
The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to
shake off our ancient prejudices and to build the
earth
What appears to be a breaking down of civilization may
be simply the breaking up of old forms by life itself.

So we are trying to create the affirmative equivalent
of the raging grannies --- some presence that
mythically and actually would have people stand in
their full greatness and do what needs to be done. 
There is more scope for adventure in the next decade
or two, if we but wake up, than has been for a long
time -- Affairs are soul sized . . .



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Will tomorrow be here soon?  ... of course it will.  Not once has tomorrow not been here, but what about yesterday?  Where is it now?  It will be gone to us . . . like today will be long gone ... When tomorrow comes around.             -- Dodge Chatto 1975


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