I'm
intrigued at the idea of self-portraits as a means of learning to love
and understand yourself better, and perhaps as a means to
Let-Self-Change. UK photographer Victoria Sims, whose self-portrait is above, is a master at this.
What I'm thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:
Grasping at Straws: Figuring
out how to make the world a better place. I've given up on the 'free
market', political system reform, social consciousness movements, and
technological innovations -- these are all part of the problem, and
we're deluding ourselves to think they will be part of the solution.
The solution must be bottom-up, community-based, resilient,
experimental, collectively self-managed, and infused with love for each
other, and oriented to creating 'working models'. Beyond that, I don't
know, we're just going to have to make it up as we go along. But we
have to get going.
What Happened to the Spirit of the Sixties?:
A new generation is now dissecting the phenomenon of the late 1960s and
early 1970s, and has concluded that it wasn't as big a deal as it
seemed at the time. I'm not sure sure, and I was there. To understand
what that era was about, I think we need to understand what happened to
the momentum that it created.
Vignettes: Coming up soon, vignettes #4 and #5.
Blog-Hosted Conversations:
Plan is for 30-minute conversations,
once a week, on the subject of identifying and acquiring the essential
skills and relationships we need to be models of a better way to live,
and what those models might look like. Still working on practice
podcasts, readings of my own works just to try out the new
medium.
I'm psyched, I'm upbeat, I'm happier than I've been in decades. But I'm so damned impatient. I need to learn to learn from everyone I meet, every observation, every experience. I need to learn patience, generosity, grace.
What's the one quality or skill or attribute that you think you most need to acquire in your Let-Self-Change journey? |
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