20 Essays

In an attempt to escape the my paralyzing fear of failure as a writer, in 2017 I "decided" to just write 20 essays . No attempt to integrate. No attempt to narrate. No attempt a structure. An attempt to remove the barriers to getting something onto paper. I figured that was a fist step. Maybe not efficient but more effective than writing nothing. Maybe structure would emerge. Maybe Humpty Dumpty could be put together.

Canvas 1 Layer 1 Whole Systems INDIVIDUALS FAMILIES Viable Systems Model Neighborhood, Places of Belonging Complexity Organizations (Institutions) Relationships, Interactions Properties Evolution and Nesting Recursions Parts Requisite Variety Systems Thinking (META- SYSTEMS THINKING Stories My Favorite Models Care (Beauty Aesthetics) Meadows and Why, Who, How, Why Voice Sensitivity Model Social System Model (BGTE) Sustainability Chaotic Systems Complicated Systems Simple Systems Essential Variables Learning, Adapting, Resilience (anti0fragile( Bodies & Minds Ethics, Participation, Freedom, Solidarity Measurement Attraction, Repulsion Ontology & Epistemology (True) Black Box Finding Minds Ostrom’s Cheap Talk Culture Syntegration Navigating Moods & Emotions Food Play and Learning and Work Housing Health Structural Justice and Restorative Justice Environment Open Source Cynefin (Dave Snowden) Meta Systems Consultants VISUALIZING Mapping SYSTMES Courage Barbara Fredrickson Already Wise and Experienced Idealized Design Moshi Feldernrais Yoga, Ti Chei Mindfulness PROGRAMS (Economy, Productive Action) Patterns Governance Caring (Good) Navigating Navigating Navigating Navigating Frameworks for Navigating Change Together Private Goods Public Goods Common Goods HOW IT WORKS? WHAT- HOW MUCH? WHO? WHY? DEVELOPING SELF (CREATING SELF) LEVERAGE POINTS IN SYSTEMS: Physical Systems, Chemical Systems, Biological Systems, Social Systems, Political Systems, Economic Systems, Ecological Systems Manages Manages Devolve Devolve Devolve Requires Can be treated as Manage Manages Often display Calls for Represent Represent Represent Represent Make sense of Take care of Take care of Take care of Take care of Take care of Take care of Take care of Coach Perspective Distinctions Help understand & Communicate Create Create Create Create CYBERNETICS Idealized Design FEAR CUROSITY STASIS STABILITY CHANGE VIABILITY DEATH Toll Goods COOPERATIVES

In 2017 I took a six week adult writing course three time consecutively and that made writing easy--I no longer had an excuse not to write. So I accumulated a bunch of pieces then and a lot more since meeting Ward Cunningham and the federated wiki platform.

So... lets see what happens now, here. As some folks remind us, "sense-making is retrospective." Maybe, over time the pieces of Humpty Dumpty can be brought together, enough to be recognize.