paths of least resistance. Thickening roots widen cracks. Microbes digest stone. Water seeps in to erode and undermine inhospitable surfaces. With time enough, as numbers and types of plants increase, a more diverse and alive ecosystem emerges. Facilitating change involves seeing and nurturing seeds: people who want more of life enough to risk breaking open to sense possible pathways and co-create ways to grow into them.
Beth Mount Reverse perspective and imagine the change maker as a seed. The machinery of social exclusion is programmed to mindlessly bury us in a gray avalanche of fear provoking, life draining, compliance worshiping busyness. A good seed discerns and serves the pattern of life enfolded in its DNA. It makes a way out of no way by seeking space and nutrients to grow into its form and extending its roots to communicate and exchange with other growing organisms around it. It will play its part in evolving an ecosystem that promotes flourishing.
A way to keep on There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.
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