There's nothing dead at the boundary between skin and air. It brims with possibility, tingles with restless emergence.<div><br></div><div>There's nothing dead about those cells. A shadow I cast with my body is not dead, but a dancing with light. Those cells are yet another reflection in materiality of potential in a state of pause, the silence of form in transition.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The burned earth is not dead earth but earth refreshing, readying for growth.</div><div><br></div><div>Boundaries are the silences of the spaces in between; all part of the living flowing.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Warmly </div><div><br></div><div>Paul<br><br>On Friday, 11 April 2014, <<a href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Outside of my skin, my body can no longer be responsible for life. That doesn’t mean that I live in a vacuum or that everything outside of my skin is dead or that I am not a completely interdependent being. It’s just that my heart powers this body and the responsibility for an effectiveness of that heart doing tha work ends at this skin. <div>
<br></div><div>Chris <div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 11, 2014, at 7:40 AM, Harold Shinsato <<a><a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a></a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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<div>Interesting that the outer edge of the
skin of our bodies skin is in fact, dead cells.<br>
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On 4/11/14 8:01 AM, Harrison Owen wrote:<br>
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<pre>Michael -- I do believe that the truth of the matter is that when, as, or if
you ever discover a totally stable, unambiguous boundary that will be the
edge of a Dead Zone. Life is always a mess. :-)
ho
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Chris,
Thanks for the clarity of your reflections Chris. What you said resonates
with me and links, I think, to Harrison's proposition of the 'centripital'
nature of self organisation - passion plus responsibility. In my case study
that gave rise to this conversation, the 'boundaries' are related to many
legal uncertainties which tend to impinge on conversations around
'responsibility'. For example, 'can we take responsibility for 'x' issue
when the responsibility for 'x', under the law, is determined to lie
elsewhere? This seems to me to be a boundary issue which creates a lot of
ambiguity in the centre of the circle. But I suppose that this is just the
nature of life. Sometimes things (like the law) are unclear and we need to
just get on with it and do the best we can under the conditions that present
themselves, rather than the conditions that we'd ideally like. Similar to
some recent conversations on this list about chaos in Syria and the Ukraine
- which have much larger sta kes than my little case study.
Michael Wood
Perth, WA
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I?m a little late to this and see that other threads have spun out but I
have a thought or two.
Containers - social containers - are absolutely essential to any level of
order. Without something to contain the chaos you simply have chaos. Order
arises when there is coherence. The coherence inside a container is
different from the coherence or the chaos outside a container. The place
where this transition happens is the boundary. The boundary may be
permeable to various degrees but it is certainly real.
As to how the boundary is created, I think my experience says that it is
socially constructed. It can be influenced by many actions - including
intention, invitation, the nature of the shared culture within the
container, and the action that is undertaken. Open Space facilitators
become helpful when we can work with this container.
How do you do that? In my experience, the most powerful and generative
containers are those that gather around a centre, rather that those that are
contained by a boundary.
In practical terms what this looks like is simple: drop a powerful
invitation into the centre of a group (passion and urgency) and a group will
coalesce around that and ?fall in together.? Your other option is to create
a fence and gather people up and put them inside it. This is much more work
and rarely effective. You have a container, but you also have </pre></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>