conversation
Welcome to the conversation.
I’ve included the following from what I included on my website for yesterday and today.
I have just begun to dip into Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae and I just have to share something he says about how to read the book. Seth suggest: You can read this book in ten minutes. Or you can take two hours or even a few days. Up to you. If you want to know what it’s about, just read the executive summary. If you want the high points, jump from one boxed item to another. Or, if you want to dive in deep, grab a pen, scribble in the margins, and start right here.
I love that. It’s a picture of life for me. I want to dive in deep, I want to dive in deep with others. Life is not something that we sort out in a few minutes, or even a more intensive day or so: it’s a slow journey of intention in the one direction.
The exciting thing is, more and more people are getting this and exploring life, as it is meant to be explored - with others. It was a thrill to read of the experiences of my friend Shawna Snow on her website about how her remarkable idea for making the world more human - Reckoning - came out of a ’simple process … “some friends and I started talking …”.
Life is a conversation. Shawna continues, ‘and it is still in this process that it continues to take shape’. Check it out here. It’s all about education, social spaces, and contemporary artistic practices.
Here’s a little more from Shawna’s website because I especially love this question she asks: ‘So, how do we continue to develop the art of conversation, to cultivate this simple, yet seemingly lost for of human interconnectivity that keeps us focused on what is really important? This is where we are at, wanting to cultivate a culture of people that talk deeply and openly about things that matter.’
Let’s talk.
