At the heart of freedom is understanding how our thoughts and questions today have the power to ripple impact generations from now. Now, though it’s impossible to accurately forecast impact that far out, we become more conscious of impact to the degree that we allow ourselves to dream that far out.

The beginning of communal responsibility is communal dreaming.

For those of us who facilitate complex community energy and healing for a living, much of life happens at the intuitive level - the sea of wordless clarity and poignancy beneath the chattering seagulls of rational inquiry. Today is a good day to celebrate the deep value of intuition.

In Wikipedia, the open source wiki online encyclopedia where anyone can anything anywhere anytime, there is a reminder at the bottom of edit pages that if you don’t want your submissions “mercilessly edited”, don’t bother submitting anything.

What a metaphor for life. Let go of ownership of what you express and you’ll live a wonderfully expressive life.

where were you this morning
when daffodils dreamed silently
beneath the snow?

The NY Times today reports that “Florida has struck down a law forbidding unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays.”

Who knows when the law emerged but if it was in the modern era of TV headline crawls, I’m picturing Roscoe sitting in his Palm Beach condo yelling into the kitchen - hey Flo, there’s another warning on the TV for them parachuting unmarried women till 10 o’clock. Better keep the kids in tonight.

I’m thinking the law was written in an era when unmarried women were socially expected to be virgins and the law reflected the mythology that legislation can protect a civilization from waking up on the beach to near misses from virgins falling from the heavens like pancakes.

When will we evolve and what will it take?

I’m re-reading Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tulku Thondup’s Boundless Healing where he suggests that we receive joy in all its expressions and forms - in the form of the beauty of the season, a cup of tea, the smile of a stranger and the kindness of a friend. Meditation practice is allowing the feeling to permeate the billions of cells in our bodymind. What could be more radical?

The wisdom of networks is that there is no center in networks. Networks lose their wisdom - becoming less intelligent collectively than their smartest single members - when there is any attempt to make any point a center.

Networks have wisdom to the degree that they are self-organizing wholes that continuously share in the dynamic distribution of knowledge, information, ideas, questions and responsibility.

When we wish freedom for other countries, what are we wishing? And what peaceful activities do we envision as ways to bring those kinds of freedom about? Who organizes and funds these activities and how do they connect with the natural and human resources of those countries? How do they evoke and provoke vision for freedom in those countries? Who in our country is known as a visionary for our own freedom for our next seven generations? And, is the freedom we want for them more about freedom to rather than freedom from?

How we see our present is directly related to how we imagine our future. As it turns out, how we picture our future is as powerful a lens to seeing the present as is how we picture our past. From a quantum perspective, how we see the present is not a given. How we see the present is totally shaped by the lens we use to see it.