First, I highly recommend reviewing this talk on the TED website here. On the site to the right of the video screen you will see the Interactive Transcript.. SUPER cool feature from TED. Check it out!
This week has been one of creating a tribe and all things seems to point toward and sprout from the concept:Business Design Studio. I am in the planning stages and talking with some key people this week about hosting the first studio in September.
This evening I went to Asheville’s Green Drinks where I was WOWed by the story of the cooperatively owned Firestorm Cafe and Bookstore, the historic Stone Soup restaurant and the French Broad Food Coop [nts find the links]. These are amazing stories.
Ok, its dinner time so gotta split, watch the talk and send me your stories!!
Tonight I see Campion’s Bright Star! And I am compelled by my vision at 230am.. returning from a night of clarity, team, possibilities and vision! As the road blurs, Chuck’s keys and Stephanie’s croon… I am reminded of my own soul’s appeal to tell stories. My stories, yes. But stories.. to tell them LIVE and tell them recorded.. but TO TELL THEM!!
I return to writing… watchful of the details subtle and pregnant. I can see that I am read.. I can see that my words hold meaning. And I will tell my stories!!!
There is a This Permaculture Apprenticeship coming up in August that I highly recommend checking into!! These folks know what they are up to and they are making miracles happen (both Ashevillage and the NC 120 Leadership team from the Legacy Center)!! Check them out!
In 1997, a few key things happened in my life: I decided I was ready for the relationship of my life (and I met Diana), I discovered my calling in teaching through Outward Bound, and I read Brian Swimme’s book The Universe is a Green Dragon. I already had a fairly vast cosmic view on the world.. understanding how my world is affected by the alignment of the planets through engaging with and observing their movements across the night sky is one way I grappled with my own behaviors, reactions and desires. I realize that my place on the earth, my specific location does indeed change the way these planets interact and affect my own constitution. In 1997, I opened myself to BEING the person I needed to be to make the transformation I see possible in this world: community in peace!
Here is a summary quote from the book that I found in my childhood trunk which finally arrived at my house when my parents decided they were done storing it for me:
Each individual person has the power of participating in the transformation of the whole Earth. The evil that reaches you after so many millions of years of existence can be absorbed and transformed. You have the power to accept the suffering, to refuse to pass it on to another, to forgive, to end the needless torment, and, most of all, to transmute evil into energy for the vitality of the whole.
The task of maturing into a human being requires tremendous power. It is a matter of authenticity. What powers enable you to achieve your own authenticity as a member of this vast adventure? What powers enable an oak tree to achieve its own authentic function in the living world? What powers enable a star to integrate its processes and initiate its vital creativity?
In a recent conversation with a dear friend, I was reminded how pervasive authenticity is in achieving the majestic visions we are privileged to witness. Simply being true to one’s self and expressing that real life is key to accomplishing the next step in relationship, career, purpose, etc… And without it we are left to illusion and fiction which are tools for evil and the birthplace of deception.
All this after viewing Peter Hedges’ 2007 film Dan in Real Life. The characters agree to hide their true feelings, thoughts and experiences. While this may be simple when proximity is not tight the story shows how insane it seems to live the lies we tell ourselves.
Okay, Okay!!! I get the message.. finally. And I have been working for more than 18 months after hours to develop my passions into what I am beginning to understand is a profession in networking. Though I’m still fuzzy on what exactly that means or how it monetizes. The simple version is this: I get to work with varied groups of people pursuing visions that align with my passion: Discovery and Peace through Stories! While at the same time I get to locate myself anywhere in the world and devote myself to the visions that are manifest through collaborating with two or more people.
Most likely what I bring to the table is a technology focus to improving systems and methodologies much like I have already done with the Method Meeting and with the Business Design Studio.
and then, I watch this, which I have been planning to watch Procrastination since TEDGlobal last week, and decide to get a cup of tea…
Tonight we will start with the powerful talk from Elif Shafak that shows how telling her story allows her to traverse the many cultures and perceived boundaries she has faced. Enjoy the talk and tell your story!!
That’s right, TEDxAsheville is back and in full effect. Organizers have been working countless hours to produce this event!! Registration and ticketing are now open and I hope that you DO sign up. You can view the videos from TEDxAsheville2009 here.
I am taking a moment to sit and rest and play artist, writer, reader… yet the first instinct that I cannot resist is to open my email, launch my twitterfeed and dance around the web looking for the answers to these persistent and pregnant questions. The problem with resting while these questions loom is they are on a timeframe.. like a gestating child.. no matter how much I would like to prepare the time will come when the babe will appear and my life will forever be changed. Luckily, I aint birthin’ no babies!! And its most likely that the stuff on deadline does not equal a missed opportunity, if anything it means the time is not full for me to participate in the activity in question. This lie, “if I don’t work on the idea right now then I’ll miss the opportunity”, is one that prevents my mind from being fully present and ultimately prevents me from being fully prepared when the time does come for fullness. So, I slow my heart, rest my breathing and refocus my attention. In this stillness, I find peaceful celebration.. the walk of zazen and water.
I am excited about a ton of different things.. here are some of them:
WHEW!! Needless to say, its been a full extracurricular week since the end of TEDGlobal 2010.. and now you have an idea about what happens to me when I sit down to “take a rest.” If I allow the gates to be open the tsunami of connections and ideas come and freak havoc on my present mind. Most of the time this is my ideal state. Alas, balance is key to longevity… so I seek and work toward finding the balance in the movements, stealing moments of rest in the chaos, hunting for the eye of the hurricane where I can draw my strength and reset my barrings for the main objective!!
Such high praise for the work of Naif and “The 99″. For too long we have needed someone to think outside of the old heroes and invent new powers that unite the members of our global community. What a fabulous good news to have a super hero team that is truly cross cultural?! How else could we imagine our future but through a team that is engaging across cultural boundaries and differences!! Well done Dr. Naif!!
Tonight I see Campion’s 
I am psyced to see the pictures from the 
In 1997, a few key things happened in my life: I decided I was ready for the relationship of my life (and I met Diana), I discovered my calling in teaching through Outward Bound, and I read Brian Swimme’s book 
my email, launch my twitterfeed and dance around the web looking for the answers to these persistent and pregnant questions. The problem with resting while these questions loom is they are on a timeframe.. like a gestating child.. no matter how much I would like to prepare the time will come when the babe will appear and my life will forever be changed. Luckily, I aint birthin’ no babies!! And its most likely that the stuff on deadline does not equal a missed opportunity, if anything it means the time is not full for me to participate in the activity in question. This lie, “if I don’t work on the idea right now then I’ll miss the opportunity”, is one that prevents my mind from being fully present and ultimately prevents me from being fully prepared when the time does come for fullness. So, I slow my heart, rest my breathing and refocus my attention. In this stillness, I find peaceful celebration.. the walk of zazen and water.
I am excited about a ton of different things.. here are some of them:
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