It has been pointed out that i often use specific words or concepts in ways people are not familiar. So i am going to try and collect them here to aid readers in their quest to enjoy and participate in this Audacious Year.
We-ing: The process of becoming aware of a sense of community that doesn't create an Us/them dichotomy.
compartmentalization: In the negative sense it means creating a place for parts of ourselves that are hidden and secreted away (sort of like being in the closet) that is actually very important about how one makes their way through the world;
in the positive sense it mean things are arranged so that things are in their appropriate places.
Complicated/Complex: Ben Emmerick offered this articulation of the two similar words- Complicated is the number of elements in a system; Complex is the number of relationships between the elements in a system. If this intrigues you please investigate the School For Designing A Society http://www.designingsociety.org/
permaculture:
natural building:
Social Permaculture:
Natural Community Building:
Nacre: i am using the term nacre to describe how we take irritants and let them be covered, layered over inside oursleves as an Oyster coats an irritant in its shell to eventually produce a pearl. We nacre over many things to keep them from bothering us and eventually we produce our "pearls" of suffering. i want to be able to make this a bit more concious of a process. Identify the irritants and decide whether they need to be removed or used for some beautifying purposes. It is how we often don't know or remember where our "pearls" of beautiful suffering came from and they eventually start to choke us. Or we try to pawn them off as prescious family heirlooms.
Filter/Net:
That's a different articulation of the difference btw complicated and complex that you told me. You explained it previously as complex having more knowns than complicated.
ReplyDeleteI like Nacre. Read it as Narce first ;-)
Why'd you leave some blank? I got a feelin ;-)
Bryan, thanks for the comment. i had my own remeberanceof Ben's offer. When i asked Andy about it this summer, i was happy to hears its clarity.
ReplyDeleteNacre is coming along nicely, yes!
The blanks are because i remembered them as things that would be good to explain but i haven't had time to get to yet. If you can think of other things that would be good to go up here to help you all (and me!) to engage, that would be AWESOME!