IS: The tease
Upcoming events:
- Sunday Sept 7: Community Hub Call 19.10 for members
- Tuesday Sept 9: The Oasis
- Friday Sept 12: IS Connection Call
Last week's newsletter was "The one place you can't go is back" and the Community Hub session was titled "Leverage".
When the "next elegant step" in a domain is clear, we can point at it concretely. Examples:
- Today marked the 9th and final week of the Developmental Practice Series (not counting next Thursday's bonus session) and I plan to write more about its success soon. The next step there is running Casework Pods in October.
- Intentional Ventures is gaining sight on maintainable structure and clarity, approaching patterns for value delivery (i.e. helping each other). The next step is to execute on the new rhythm (with self-awareness), and see how right we've got it.
I'll try to keep speaking of those and more, but also... I'm noticing how drawn I am lately to scrabbling at the edges of a big unfolding, something nebulous chewing on me as I contemplate big dreams and moving forward. My own dreams, and the dreams of other collaborators, and the exhortations of our souls, show me that while coordination is hard, the wisdom of it is real — the recurring resonance of the call, the pattern, though my grasp is oblique to different degrees on different days.
So I keep speaking of this edge with confidants, trying to blow on the sparks, increase the heat to burst forward in flame and illumination. It's big. It's ambitious. It's the next layer, next turning, next unfolding. It's a way of being and a protocol of doing. A concrete coalition, and a memetic abstraction. It's the unification of so many things that I can point towards, but the thing itself is not clear enough to speak concretely! It is calling itself into existence, and... I feel like an old testament prophet praying for the word of the Lord to descend and make itself known.
Does it help anything to tease you with this, dear reader? Perhaps not. But this tease is teasing me, and to hide its aliveness tonight would be a turning away, a step toward deadening or burying it. Speaking what is arising and stirring, even at the cost of intelligibility, seems like the next step in this very moment. The next elegant step doesn't have to look sensible. I distrust "schizo poasting" when I see others' and yet... ah yes because the inscrutable ranting is not the thing, not the elegance itself. If the pattern matches, if the frequency resonates, then it calls forth clarity and concreteness and THAT is the trustable signal: the simplicity on the other side of the complexity, the integration on the other side of paradox.
May your antennae be attuned to the signals in the noise, and may your lightning rods be solidly grounded. May we ground each other, equip each other, amplify the signals, and cooperatively carry them back home.
Cheers,
James