i feel this. But there is a tension that keeps people from truly entering this realm of possibility - the tension between wanting to belong and wanting to be unique, the tension between wanting security and wanting change. The tension between hope and action. So many of us just freeze, somewhere between. Courage is needed. Trust in life itself. Reinvention is there for us all, each moment. It's kind of like people are trying to open the door to get out but never realize they are already outside and just need to step move away from the safety of the door and into everything that is. In my field, education - we have the maker movement. It's a nice manifesto. There is a free pdf of it out there ...
David, Thanks for your insightful comment. Yes, to the idea of change and courage as being a part of this manifesto. Reinventing ourselves is something that's open to us, if we're willing. It's about having a realization, or a series of realizations. And acting on them. Part of the tension you're pointing out here, I think, is the being stuck in one's habits, modes of operating, ways of seeing the world, and preferring the stuckness over change. The Maker Movement Manifesto is in my list, in A Manifesto on Manifestos.
i feel this. But there is a tension that keeps people from truly entering this realm of possibility - the tension between wanting to belong and wanting to be unique, the tension between wanting security and wanting change. The tension between hope and action. So many of us just freeze, somewhere between. Courage is needed. Trust in life itself. Reinvention is there for us all, each moment. It's kind of like people are trying to open the door to get out but never realize they are already outside and just need to step move away from the safety of the door and into everything that is. In my field, education - we have the maker movement. It's a nice manifesto. There is a free pdf of it out there ...
David, Thanks for your insightful comment. Yes, to the idea of change and courage as being a part of this manifesto. Reinventing ourselves is something that's open to us, if we're willing. It's about having a realization, or a series of realizations. And acting on them. Part of the tension you're pointing out here, I think, is the being stuck in one's habits, modes of operating, ways of seeing the world, and preferring the stuckness over change. The Maker Movement Manifesto is in my list, in A Manifesto on Manifestos.
When tension breaks the string, we become unbound. Peace, Maurice
Alisa, Joyce, KW, thank you for the restacks!
"Interconnected through technology, we’ve grown new minds and new spines, and we can no longer afford to live stagnant unsurprising lives."
"Connect and aspire—inspire, and feel the digital fire."
"Just as in past centuries, freethinkers are permanently altering the future."
"Reinvention isn’t a commodity. It’s a quantum idea, a miraculous meme, a fluid structure, a new set of eyes, a path forward."
"Reinvention asks everything of you, and it asks nothing of you."
Just wow. Don't miss this biblio-orgasm paean to the future.
Thanks for digging this manifesto, Joyce!
That has to be the longest prose poem I've read in a long time. The call is spot on; the words are stardust.
Sounds to dada
Study the past, to understand the present. Wax the present to ensure the future. Aquarian Dawning rules OK, Peace, Maurice
Excellent.