What It Takes (More or Less)
I am alone.
You be alone
with the trees.
Be fluid in your walking.
Be free in the trees.
Be visceral.
So many futures,
So little time.
Dismiss the edge stuff in the mind.
There are no edge cases,
no thresholds,
no margins.
Separate from them.
Loose them.
Lose them.
Let the abscission layer
go “tick”
and let the leaf lonely fall.
Be the tail of the kite.
Be the rudder atop the rudder.
Be thee ye:
the leaf,
the wake,
the smoke,
and the dust devil.
Here is an embedded version with a chatGPT explication:
Here is where the poem came from. I used small post-it bookmarks to revise the poem. I thought of the bookmarks as ‘constraints’ that might reveal an adjacent possibility. I think it worked.
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Wow. You continue to put a lot of time and effort into the articles you post. That is a LOT of sticky notes!
I saw a video from the World Economic Forum on LinkedIn today, showing skills which employers think will be key in years to come. I posted it on my blog at https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2023/10/skills-youth-need.html
I think your blog articles demonstrate many of these skills, including a perseverance and work ethic. The challenge is finding ways to nurture these habits and skills in places throughout the US and the world.
I also saw a long post about Systems Thinking on LinkedIn. You can see it at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/systems-thinking-them-graham-berrisford/
I think these are related. Reaching k-12 kids in every zip code with mentoring, teaching and learning that instills and reinforces habits which you demonstrate in your blog, and which the WEF shows are important, requires a systems thinking process that I don’t see applied in enough places.
Maybe you can apply your sticky note process to the Systems Thinking article!