I love this. It's the way your thought process is simultaneously ordered and logical, but open to whimsical and intuitive tangents. It's poetic and insightful. It also strikes me as very mature.
When it comes to systems, I do think there are non neutral systems that are human made (and therefore enclosing). Neoliberal economics, for instance. But I take your point that systems not caught in a feedback loop are neutral. I can see that.
Thank you for this. It is worth numerous readings. 🙏
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful response, Jeremy. I am a great fan of following the logic until it inevitably reaches some point of whimsy - I think the mind can too easily get stuck trying to "figure things out" when often the figuring can only take you so far, and then you can either drive yourself crazy making up reasons, or step back and look around in wonder.
I appreciate your point about non-neutral systems, and totally agree. It's all about the intention behind the system. Is it built to feed only itself, or to nourish and create opportunity for those who use it.
I like the way you think, and I apprecuate the fact you address systems. It's funny how they are everywhere, and yet people often don't think about them, or how we inhabit them.
I am really enjoying reading your work, and I'm delighted to follow along. Thank you for your insights and such delightful topics. I appreciate how well you write, and your gift for communicating philosophy and the whimsy you refer to. 😊
Systems are funny things indeed. We are systems - I think that gets overlooked a lot - our bodies operating in this mechanical yet mystifying way without our conscious attention. Makes perfect sense, given the fractal nature of things, that we’d like to operate within systems as well. The eternal issue seems to be that feedback loop programming. Whether it’s in a system like you mentioned or that echo chamber group think thing we see all too often - after they’ve exhausted outside resources, systems that don’t promote their own evolution eat themselves alive, eventually.
Whew. Thank you for the thought provoking conversation.
🙋♀️ overthinker right here with you. so happy to know I blew your mind a little - if I have a goal with my writing, that's exactly it. and to help you feel something. which maybe is the same thing. anyway. THANK YOU for the kind words and for being here as a beautiful mirror <3
What a gift to see that, to be able to use and work with the systems and not be caught in their web, depending on them. I understand about the being born too early or late thing. I've often felt that way. Which direction it goes, I'm not sure. Probably both.
With ferns that drop there tears in pools that scarecely bathe a star, ephemeral ponds and all that's visible magic, check out moss mantra by Pamela wynn Shannon, sing peace into your breast, while the brown mice, bob around and around the oatmeal chest,
I love this. It's the way your thought process is simultaneously ordered and logical, but open to whimsical and intuitive tangents. It's poetic and insightful. It also strikes me as very mature.
When it comes to systems, I do think there are non neutral systems that are human made (and therefore enclosing). Neoliberal economics, for instance. But I take your point that systems not caught in a feedback loop are neutral. I can see that.
Thank you for this. It is worth numerous readings. 🙏
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful response, Jeremy. I am a great fan of following the logic until it inevitably reaches some point of whimsy - I think the mind can too easily get stuck trying to "figure things out" when often the figuring can only take you so far, and then you can either drive yourself crazy making up reasons, or step back and look around in wonder.
I appreciate your point about non-neutral systems, and totally agree. It's all about the intention behind the system. Is it built to feed only itself, or to nourish and create opportunity for those who use it.
Grateful to have you and your wisdom here 🍯🙏
I like the way you think, and I apprecuate the fact you address systems. It's funny how they are everywhere, and yet people often don't think about them, or how we inhabit them.
I am really enjoying reading your work, and I'm delighted to follow along. Thank you for your insights and such delightful topics. I appreciate how well you write, and your gift for communicating philosophy and the whimsy you refer to. 😊
Ditto.
Systems are funny things indeed. We are systems - I think that gets overlooked a lot - our bodies operating in this mechanical yet mystifying way without our conscious attention. Makes perfect sense, given the fractal nature of things, that we’d like to operate within systems as well. The eternal issue seems to be that feedback loop programming. Whether it’s in a system like you mentioned or that echo chamber group think thing we see all too often - after they’ve exhausted outside resources, systems that don’t promote their own evolution eat themselves alive, eventually.
Whew. Thank you for the thought provoking conversation.
“Brene Brown says being able to communicate our emotions leads to deeper intimacy. But emotions don’t make sense either. That’s why we need poetry.”
I never thought of it this way. Thanks for blowing my mind a little today as an overthinker who thinks she has thought of everything every which way.
Beautifully written as well.
🙋♀️ overthinker right here with you. so happy to know I blew your mind a little - if I have a goal with my writing, that's exactly it. and to help you feel something. which maybe is the same thing. anyway. THANK YOU for the kind words and for being here as a beautiful mirror <3
Technically, I'm an outlier. I use technology, but I can live without it.
I have a cellphone, but always forget it when I'm leaving the house.
I work in a job, but don't live to work.
I was either born 100 years too early, or 200 years too late.
What a gift to see that, to be able to use and work with the systems and not be caught in their web, depending on them. I understand about the being born too early or late thing. I've often felt that way. Which direction it goes, I'm not sure. Probably both.
Fucking phenomenal.
🙏🙏🙏 this one poured out in one continuous flow. Thank you as always for seeing and reflecting that universal brilliance we are graced with
With ferns that drop there tears in pools that scarecely bathe a star, ephemeral ponds and all that's visible magic, check out moss mantra by Pamela wynn Shannon, sing peace into your breast, while the brown mice, bob around and around the oatmeal chest,