Each day offers the challenge of ‘hearing what is not said, to see what cannot be seen.’
These daily dispatches, lasting 108 days, provide a window into ways we might learn and grow through these storms – in this extraordinary season - as we find ways to see and face the horizon as we go.
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No. 107 of 108
History is uneven. While we mostly move forward, it isn’t a straight line
No. 106 of 108
Denying that climate changes from human actions does not stop the climate from changing.
No. 105 of 108
Mobile devices are built to entice us into being in our own world.
No. 104 of 108
It is both good and bad news that culture – apparently – plays such a large role in human evolution.
No. 103 of 108
When does free speech go too far? When does the cancellation of free speech go too far?
No. 102 of 108
Bit by bit, byte by bite. Reverse the slide.
No. 101 of 108
How we govern matters, as it turns out. Thus, a pro-business ruler may indeed not be good for business.
No. 100 of 108
No thing in nature is the same, except when it is… then so infrequently that ancient peoples stopped to notice, inquire, celebrate. Us modern folx manufacture sameness, enforce sameness, rage over sameness.
No. 99 of 108
Let us keep learning about good things and not so good things, and passing on useful knowledge, skills and ways. Prevail! Conspire to thrive.
No. 98 of 108
Finding our footing depends a great deal on whether we can begin to tell the story of what the right direction looks like, feels like.
No. 97 of 108
Whoa! Addiction to revenge! Sigh.
No. 96 of 108
In this moment of historic global chaos, are we the bacteria, the sea star, the sea urchin, the kelp, the carbon dioxide, the storm surge, the scientist, the folx who support the scientist? Yes.
No. 95 of 108
Why do we do it? Say it, gesture it, spew venom, cast poisonous shade, violently cancel?
No. 94 of 108
Will the tools be used in dependent ways that shrink/stunt/freeze our complex understanding muscles? That’s on us.
No. 93 of 108
Or… with you do your thing, I’ll do mine? Or… with I’m right! and you are %&*# wrong!
No. 92 of 108
“You have no idea what you have just unleashed.” Who said this?
No. 91 of 108
Once upon a very long moment, for all of our ancestors, collaboration was a prized traditional way of the peoples.
No. 90 of 108
Realities continue to cleave, rearrange themselves, escalate and reflexively push back harder, with more judgement and violence.
No. 89 of 108
The last time I spoke of climate change and ice cream together was in post #37, in which was advised: “enjoy responsibly”.
No. 88 of 108
Responses to escalations become the justification for further escalation, the circular nature obvious to observers but not to participants.