Dear Family and Friends,
It has been six months since I launched my little writing experiment; and what an experiment it has been! I have found you; surprised you; spammed you; heard from many of you; and in some cases, even written about you. Moreover, I have kept the faith I pledged when first undertaking this project.
“Today, four decades after embarking on a career in change work, I publicly commit to taking a moment each week to demystify the impressions, memories, and insights amassed before and since the epiphany that upended everything for me. I wish now to understand how people actually—not just theoretically—change.”
–Assays of Bias, Read This First, November 10, 2022.
Since my last email, I have added four new entries to my blog. I invite you to approach them and everything you find there with an agile mind. An “Assay of Bias” is a roundabout way of saying “roundabout,” which is the only direction I know for addressing the ouroboros of Being and Change. That circular reasoning section of our brains—Think Doug Hofstadter: The following statement is true; the previous statement is false—is the sweet spot into and from which I prefer to splash my cacophony of verbal paint.
Five for a Dollar began as a 50-year flashback to a day on the ski slopes brought forward by current reports of record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains. But instead of ending there, it kicked up an avalanche of loosely coupled ideas, a few of them not so flakey, about motivation.
Silver Water is my first in a parade of coming metaphors circumvolving the idea of transformation: Being and Change is a U-tube. But what’s a U-tube when it’s at home?
Consider the Chatbot was mostly written by a computer scientist/physicist friend of mine named Ken Ritley, and his favorite AI. It took me all of two minutes to sprinkle about my contribution. Judge for yourself which of its three authors speaks to you.
Beauty for Ashes poses the question to anyone who stopped (or started) something because of the Pandemic: Have you now restarted (or stopped) it?
And in case you missed it in December, I invite you to try on The Proper Aim of Art, my change encounter with writer and futurist Ray Bradbury.
If you do visit my site, you’ll note some new features that I hope you’ll like:
Reading Time Counter: You already knew my posts could mambo jambo, but for how long? I’ll be checking this feature more often than you in my quest to circumscribe the point.
Popular Posts: This new call-out is driven mostly by data but also by reader interest expressed via comments, Likes, and—my favorite feedback—follow-up discussion.
And if you found my description of Carl Bloch’s monarch butterfly in Wounded Are the Meek difficult to imagine, I’ve also added my first pic, but only to that post.
Thank you again for replying to these emails as a catalyst for staying in touch. I have truly enjoyed hearing from you.
Cheers!
Scott