Reframing Things, episode 108: The Giver
Cards for Insight: Helping you reflect, reframe and play
In a network, your every micro-transaction sourced
from your unique take on seeing ourselves through.
In Sovereign Convivial Glow
Given that you are one small individual shard of long gone supernovas, you are in full sovereign charge of your own unique glow.
“There are two kinds of light — the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”
— James Thurber
Mimetic desire: The low stakes glare that obscures
Card: Coherence
mimetic desire
turned coherence
Mimetic desire is to anti-patterns of play,
what coherence is to patterns of play^n.
You are here for a brief spell. Play^n. Glow.
“…by night the stars themselves glimmered from the
surface of the paddies, and the river of light whirled
through the darkness underfoot as well as above;
there seemed no ground in front of my feet, only the
abyss of star-studded space falling away forever.”
— David Abram
Learning Into Aliveness
Your spell is 103% about learning into aliveness. Each thought spelling magic, weaving arborescent structures together with rhizomatic process, your knowledge, annealed and transformed, turned flow, a river on which you get to shine a gentle glow, a metalogue, a meaning-making-moving-with, learning into aliveness and with nature signaling back to you, through the dancing of fireflies above the rice paddies of eastern Bali — and — the dancing of fireflies in your mind, sparks of generative thought.
There’s A River
There’s a river pouring
From a pure and a crystal stream
And it carries my heart along
Carries me all my life
And I know it will bring me home
There’s a choir singing
With a force that can light the sky
I will join with a voice deep inside
Anthems for joys gone by
And for joys I am sure will come
Golden treasure in the evening sky
It’s good to be alive
Golden measure, hear the music cry
When my heart sings
Of golden things
There’s a dove ascending
Like my thoughts in the summer sky
And she carries my soul along
Clear to eternity
And I know I am not alone
— Steve Winwood
Play: It’s Good To Be Alive
Generative thought is essential character affordance.
It’s good to be alive.
- We made it?
- What happened?
- We happened.
In transition, our emerging character unfolds a slightly different path, that shapes ourselves slightly differently, in return.
- Your move…
Card Sessions: 2x2 Boards
- UR: Questions evolving with small group genius
- LR: Conversations around questions and issues
- LL: Practices informed by principles and insights
- UL: Knowledge flows
flow = structure x process
“x” = patterning
Patterning: There’s A River
Your cards played, your moves: in, through and connecting
between the quadrants — is what will trace evolving paths,
a spheroid spiraling rekindling of our stories, out of which
a more intelligent weaving together of data and narratives.
Cards for Insight
Addressing your questions. Helping you
reflect, reframe, rethink, play and enact.
