Hi Karen, had to think about Rob Hopkin and his ministry of imagination reading your text. And personally, I grew up with this thoughts spread by my mum and it really doesn’t have to be scary. Just things change and it’s up to all of us to make the best out of it. Liebe Grüße aus Graz! Lena
I love the felt sense of this post, my body’s response to it. I think one of the core challenges is that most of the world is frozen at a certain stage of development, one that literally cannot experience, acknowledge, let alone value and enjoy, other phases of growth, other seasons of an existence! The freeze of what Bill Plotkins calls pathological adolescence is terrified of age, dying, and the entire Good Work of becoming a whole human, a true adult and maybe even some day (gasp!) an elder. It feels soft and wonderful to consider the experience of collapse not as a failure but as a necessary part of our growth as a speciies. We’re such babies still! We literally poooped on the whole world and now we get to grow up in the wisdom those experiments have and are yielded. Thank you for this!
Beautifully articulated. I love the metaphor to compost. I love compost! You're right. Do we really want to keep going the way we're going, even if we did have a choice? I love this topic. I've felt collapse aware for many years. How could there be any other outcome on the trajectory we're on? This is an opportunity to be the best, most creative, connected, generous and strong humans we can be. And isn't that what we're all craving when it comes down to it? Please write more about this.
Hi Karen, had to think about Rob Hopkin and his ministry of imagination reading your text. And personally, I grew up with this thoughts spread by my mum and it really doesn’t have to be scary. Just things change and it’s up to all of us to make the best out of it. Liebe Grüße aus Graz! Lena
Thanks for mentioning Rob Hopkin. Brilliant. How have I not heard about him?! Grüsse zurück ; )
I spend a lot of time thinking about similar things, especially The “How do we live well now”part - lovely to be on this journey with you!
Nice. That's the most important part. Maybe I'll have to do a follow up on this post
I love the felt sense of this post, my body’s response to it. I think one of the core challenges is that most of the world is frozen at a certain stage of development, one that literally cannot experience, acknowledge, let alone value and enjoy, other phases of growth, other seasons of an existence! The freeze of what Bill Plotkins calls pathological adolescence is terrified of age, dying, and the entire Good Work of becoming a whole human, a true adult and maybe even some day (gasp!) an elder. It feels soft and wonderful to consider the experience of collapse not as a failure but as a necessary part of our growth as a speciies. We’re such babies still! We literally poooped on the whole world and now we get to grow up in the wisdom those experiments have and are yielded. Thank you for this!
Beautifully articulated. I love the metaphor to compost. I love compost! You're right. Do we really want to keep going the way we're going, even if we did have a choice? I love this topic. I've felt collapse aware for many years. How could there be any other outcome on the trajectory we're on? This is an opportunity to be the best, most creative, connected, generous and strong humans we can be. And isn't that what we're all craving when it comes down to it? Please write more about this.
Thank you for articulating what I've been feeling so strongly these last ten months!
I have been working on a piece that explores similar themes Karen! Thank you for this.
Looking forward to reading your take on it.