Being Unconstrained, Things Happening, Insufficient Infrastructure April 7, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Dynamics of Resistance, Word in Action.add a comment
I can't believe it's been a month since I posted to the blog. Seems too much is happening all at once. I thought time was designed so that would NOT happen - at this node of the universe, seems that time is breaking down.
So this missive is really just to touch a toe down in blogsphere again. If there's something particularly that interests you, let me know and I'll follow it up when time permits.
And I've got a rif on "happen"; for a teaser, I suggest you go look it up in the dictionary.
Earlier this month, I had a couple important "ah, hah!"s:
- I'm not going to do the renovation
- I'm going to figure out what I'm going to do about living situation/home in the next 1-2 months
- and mostly:
I am no longer willing to tolerate constraints on my bringing my gift to the world. So now I'm only going for what I perceive as my highest and best use … and that is "boosting brilliant people".
On What a Life is For and Finding My Voice March 6, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Dynamics of Resistance, Word in Action, beginner blogger.2 comments
In my first Master’s level course, it was “Management 101″, the professor opened the evening asking us to provide some basic background info on ourselves, including the answer to: “What is your most important value?” He used to ask: “Who are you?” but it didn’t net much useful response because people were simply too young to answer.
When my sister was about 15, she worried: “I just don’t know what I want to be when I grow up!” So I gave her the professor’s take on it:
“Don’t worry; you’re not anybody yet.”
Being “in the make” is a tough spot when all that’s around you is pulling for a two-dimensional answer (What? No business card?) to a clearly multi-dimensional question. It’s probably best to put off the answer for as long as you can. (more…)
Where Startups Start-up: Inquiring After the SV Factor February 24, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Continuity of Source, Distinctions, Frameworks and Focus, Word in Action.1 comment so far
My friend Walt is inquiring into what is going on where startups start-up. [This is a follow-on from the conversation started after I shared about TechCrunch5 (see end note and comments).]
Apparently there are people in various places in the world that look to learn from what’s happened in Silicon Valley, and then go try and do or create what they see working here (i.e. incubators, VCs who were formerly entrepreneurs, angels, tech centers, universities, things we do, and the like) with the intent to foster more start-ups in their region.
But it doesn’t work.
Even when there’s plenty of money and plenty of political support and folks do everything they know to make it go, it doesn’t happen. Not always, not consistently, maybe not ever. Thus the puzzlement. (more…)
The Shortest Distance Between the Past and the Future is Now January 16, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Frameworks and Focus, Word in Action.7 comments
The title is one of those lines that came to me one word at a time … sometimes it’s like that – I find I have to be willing to listen without knowing what’s coming next.
I’d said it to a friend, and he asked me for the line again, so I thought I’d expound a bit - that’s was the start of this post.
Whew! And here’s a second edit … this sure bloomed into something deeper than it started as … YMB
Past and Future? Some say there is no past, there is no future, there’s only now.
It sure seems like there’s a past - I do find myself thinking and talking about it alot. It sure seems like there’s a future - we’re certainly dreaming and wondering, scheming and operating as if there is.
What’s curious is that all that conversation is usually about stuff that isn’t - isn’t yet or isn’t any longer.
So “what is” is left to now - but we don’t deal with that much.
We really don’t get the point.
On Harvest: At the Beginning of Yet Another Year (YAY) January 3, 2006
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I sent out the following BB (Before this Blog), it being a fitting reminder for me to undo, attend and harvest at this time of year’s transition, and I share it more widely now. Excerpted from The Conversation with David Whyte, by New Dimensions World Broadcasting:
“And the great question always is, when you have those threshold moments, can you harvest? Can you harvest that moment? Because all the great traditions, whether they’re our great contemplative or literate traditions, are saying that these moments of revelation are occurring all the time, and the question is are you paying attention? Can you harvest the revelation?
Are you at the threshold? Or are you far back, deep inside some insulation?
Have you given up on the world? Do you think that work is totally about manipulation and about arrangement and about “to do” lists and about getting things done? Or do you see it as some kind of ongoing conversation with greater and greater worlds?
On Killing and War, Kindness and Compassion January 3, 2006
Posted by Yvonne in Distinctions, Word in Action.1 comment so far
Regarding a question put to me by email today:
“Will the world be kinder and more compassionate place if we stop participating in killing animals and going to war? What do you think?”
My reply: “I think that if we first, be kinder and more compassionate, then the killing and war may subside - but I don’t think it will stop altogether for quite awhile. There’s too much of the power of economics in it. And certainly if we stop ingesting flesh, our constitution, brain chemistry and therefore psychology will shift — to what extent and with what resulting impact on behavior will vary with the individual.
But let’s think about it from a couple other angles.
Seems like you’ve got “kind and compassionate” opposed to “killing and war”. Apparently in this conversation, killing still does mean something, and that something is what is not wanted … but check it out: perhaps it ain’t necessarily so. Could it be possible to kill and go to war on purpose, with kindness and compassion — samurai style and with honor? Can you imagine a situation where killing would be compassionate and war would be kind?
So far, humans kill; that’s part of being human at the level we’ve come to. If you only knew how close you, yourself are to the edge of murder, it would likely make you shudder. (more…)
