embrace y/our complexity: accept my [your] inner multitudes
It will never be uncomplicated, tidy, manageable to be you. This is not an admonition. It’s fact. Have you ever experienced otherwise?
There is always more.
You are not a brand, a type or a demographic.
You cannot be simplified to a formula.
There is no algorithm that can express you. Not even a little.
The history and truth held in your body is ever-evolving in real time. The act of even retrieving memory changes it.
There is no tech that can catch up with you, simulate you or understand you.
The same goes for me. And her and him, and them…
- Being is not a test that can be scored.
- Or sorted. No matter how many forms and surveys you’re asked to fill out.
There is no system of logic, no set of morals prescripts, no way to wrap your mind around what goes on inside me, or what goes on inside you.
Ok - what if there was?
How do we do that?
And why?
I really care about the why here. I realize this picnic takes place on Valentine’s Day and maybe you have plans, but if not…let’s picnic. Pink and red hearts are optional.
embrace y/our complexity: accept my [your] inner multitudes is the third in a series of four conversations exploring y/our complexity.
It’s based on the discussion of interdependence as a series of repeated motions (beginning on p.93 of Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown) that describes four iterative practices leading toward interdependence:
- Be seen.
- Be wrong.
- Accept my [your] inner multitudes.
- Ask for and receive what I [you] need.
You don’t have to have read Emergent Strategy in order to picnic, though I [not surprisingly] highly recommend it. Come as you are, for what resonates for you. As always, there is nothing to prepare. It doesn’t matter if you attended the previous picnic.
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