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@dan0young.bsky.social

Reframing questions & designing conversations. Staying curious. Making sense of mess. He/him. whenandhowstudios.com

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"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
-- Doris Lessing, 'The Golden Notebook'

01.01.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe will have to find the strength to carry the heaviest of all burdens - an empty bag of tricks”

- Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles

31.12.2024 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œGood questions work on us, we don’t work on them.”

- Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes

22.12.2024 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe don’t have a word for non-linear in our languages because nobody would consider travelling, thinking or talking in a straight line in the first place. The winding path is just how a path is, and therefore it needs no name”

- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk

22.12.2024 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#StreetArt

19.12.2024 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”

― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

20.12.2024 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Forever is composed of nows."

β€” Emily Dickinson

20.12.2024 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€˜There is no hostile world out there plotting our demise. There is no β€œout thereβ€œ for anyone to occupy. We are utterly intertwined’

- Meg Wheatley & Myron Keller-Rogers, A Simpler Way

19.12.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"What gives you the right to define a good death for anyone else?" she demanded again.

"By the power vested in me by absolutely no one at all, I will define a good death", I said. "You could try too, if you want".

- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise.

19.12.2024 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThe essence of transformation is neither the caterpillar nor the butterfly, but rather what happens in between. And when we look "in between" we see precisely β€” nothing, for the form has been dissolved on the one side, and hasn't happened yet on the other”
- Harrison Owen, Spirit

19.12.2024 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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