Our Flow Hopper: Right Before Our Very I's

   

                                           Our Flow Hopper
                                           (facultyL / facultyTalk)
 
An eternal presence, or if you prefer: modeling an eternal presence,
representingand LIKE “an eternal presence,” this always
be-here-now un-postponed joy.
 
                                             Look: here IT is—
 
Mind on a Screen & you, dear colleague,  decoding,
translating, transforming,reviving,  resurrecting so that these
our shared words  and images, like Ezekiel’sdry bones,
become flesh if not flash & walk about in our collective
skulhausaccessible 24/7/365 there for any one: providing
both deep & surface sustainability.
 
[Not that they are the same, god forbid,  
deep and surface --an academic distinction
on the one hand as opposed to (not to be
collapsed, conflated, or confused)  the
contingencies of our  personal day to day
duties and dilemmas, our idiosyncratic
ways and means, pressing priorities,
not to be replicated or translated,  no 2
snowflake alike ebb and flow unique to
you and you and you & original, too. ]
 
But there must be a meeting place (space) hopper for flow,
day-dream catcher catching the random-to-order ratios
and relativities we must cultivate, generate:always emergent
values and properties of our converse action, true? And the
establishment of THIS (place, space, hopper for flow)
precedes the talk of sustainability just as existence precedes
essence and life: choice. 

Someplace/space/environment  OTHER  than what
we already have (lunchroom, hallway, staircase, forum,
high tea, conference, seminar, symposium, call-for-papers
-and-proposals places and far-away-ride-on-an-airplane-
name-tag-and-cash-bar places) because as Albert Einstein
tells us so: tells us  the kinds of thinking that created the
problem can’t be the kind of thinking that resolves it. and
the places that shaped thekind of thinking that created the
problems can’t be the places that shape the kind of
thinking that resolves.
 
Don’t take my word for it. Ask Ray Anderson—our
graduation speaker or Keith Sawyer: on cultivating
an environment for collaborative genius.
 
Do you know what kinds of thinking generated the
SUSTAINABILITY CRISIS in the first place?  Say.
 
We’d have to have some shared sense of  THAT before
we wondered what kind(s) might act as antidote and
supplement.True? Let the games and distributive/
coalescent team sportbegin:  put us in play. 
 
“For chance to ‘favor the prepared mind’ means, 
first of all, thatchance events need a context before
they can amount to anything.
 
In evolution, a chance mutation disappears 
immediately if thereis no hospitable environment 
to receive it…but notice that inaddition to having 
a ready structure of ideas, the prepared mind is
ready for what happen.
 
It has its theories, but it attends as well to the
anomaly that doesnot fit them.  We therefore 
get this paradox:  with smart luck themind is 
prepared for what it isn’t prepared for.
 
It has a kind of openness, holding its ideas lightly, 
and willing tohave them exposed to impurity and 
the unintended.” 
                   (Lewis Hyde: The Trickster Makes This World.)
 
Yrs in sustaining
what it takes to sustain
sustainability sustainably. 
 
Sam    hello?