Musing

nippy north breeze, dark – roads are busy with people way too anxious to be at their desks, -5C/23F

distilling ?

the science/art of boiling vegetable products to make hootch, is about boiling things down renders them to base ingredients which can be useful producing something

like making fish stock, it is laborious smelly [if that bothers you] work; but what comes out at the end is but an ingredient – not a finished product, but a base

a base of good fish stock makes my bisque unforgettable; my stock is stewing, the result will be unforgettable too [cue Nat King Cole]

or boiling ideas into a harmonious spicy broth ?

many years ago, maybe 20, Gwen Harris did a workshop for a board I was sitting on

she taught the value of writing things down, sticking the minutia on the wall for everyone in the group to see – no matter that some of the ideas were absurd, they were not absurd to everyone or from every angle

then came prioritizing/grouping them as a tool to set priorities; then regrouping then to see the same elements/issues from a different perspective; Gwen, I owe you tons of gratitude for those lessons

what fell out then, as it is now, is the separation of what is real, what is achievable & what is dream-able which is different altogether from a brain candy experience

seeing wishes, hopes, dreams & ideals through a different lens – then another & another

while as many again have already hit the bin, 41 yellow sticky notes remain, papering my wall

a pattern is emerging

Mark

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