(This Sunday’s Open Space theme)

The best design does not come from knowing 2,000 typefaces and six programs by heart. It comes from having a life and being observant and involved in the world at large.
Randall Balsmeyer

We are much happier when we’ve given up trying to control things - as if we ever could. Early on we develop a primal myth that there is a correllation between our intentions and the events of the universe. If we’re lucky, we realize that control is an illusion.

Our fear of not having control creates its own suffering - a dog barking at the echo of its own bark. Bliss is realizing we never had control, never can have control - and best of all…the best things in life happen serendipitously, when we give up control.

It is important that we honor our wisdom, intuition, and intelligence. We feel limited because we believe we are. Ignorance is an illusion we give up when we understand our intrinsic oneness with the holographic field of knowing.

We’re again subjected to an election year of one party trying to out-disparage the other. In the main, both warring camps need to come out in favor of health, education, jobs, and families while hoping they can weasel out of any testy questions about how government can bring those about. If any stands need to be taken, they have to align with campaign funder ideologies. Even in politics, one doesn’t bite feeding hands.

As we continue to model democracy globally to the unititiated, should our lesson be that democracy is about debate (the intention of destroying the other side) or dialogue (the co-creation of an inclusive reality)?

According to a new UN report to be released next week, current practices of globaliziation are widening gaps between the economic haves and have-nots. They’re calling for a redefinition that better addresses at least some of the follwing global realities

188 million people glbally are unemployed
1.1 billion people live in absolute poverty worldwide
246 million children worldwide are enslaved by adults in farm, military and sex labor
Women’s jobs have been more negatively impacted by globalization than men’s
The US leads in economic gap widening with 1% earning 17% of the gross income

I’m thinking about a time in the not so distant future where established knowledge/experience-rich blogs will be aggregated so people can go through a whole university degree program using blogs as the basis for their curriculum and learning. The University of Blog.

(This Sunday’s Open Space theme)

The Infinite embraces all things, is the source and object of all things, and is as much mystery as it is knowable. It is not necessarily a comfortable place for seekers of certainty. It is a boundless space of play for lovers of the unknown.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths, making our weaknesses irrelevant. Peter Drucker