The Mississippi would contain billions of such drops moving in silent harmony. I think too of negative space in art, space that is captured between objects and shapes. Negative space is not empty space. It’s like the river of my earlier days, not empty at all but filled with both water and the sound of voices from the other side. There are thoughts there. There are relationships, noticed and unnoticed.
You can choose to focus on the separate shapes (one of which you self-identify and defend as yourself), or you can focus upon the relationships that form the interconnectedness between all things.
When Freidrich Froebel invented Kindergarten it's purpose was to create within each child, that sense of interconnectedness as the foundation for learning. Each of us carries a seed of interconnectedness through which are led to feel whole and connected. We can use power to wrongfully engineer the lives of others, or we can recognize that spark within others and cease to impede their growth.
My friend Elliot Washor has a new program associated with Big Picture Schools, B-Unbound. It's mission is to meet the following need:
Make, fix and create. Assist others in learning likewise.
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