"The Love of Embracing Change"

"How do you get kids that have curiosity and a questing disposition?"

Taking inspiration from John Seely Brown, I am letting go of the fear of making mistakes - getting back on the surfboard and riding the next wave.

For me, words that resonate from this video connote more gerunds...

Tinkering, playing, absorbing,
integrating subconsciously, 

assimilating, experimenting, gelling, 

living, learning, breathing, 

letting go,

sharing more, judging less,

loving, remembering, honoring
forgiving, embracing,

evolving, breathing,

living.

Brown concludes:

Not everything works.

In fact, most things don't work.
And the first thing that happens [when] something doesn't work
is that it frightens you...

then, you're not going to be very willing to embrace change.


But if you realize that when things don't work,
which is almost always,
you can get in there and figure out how to tinker with these things
and just absorb what happens.


Very often when you're tinkering,
it doesn't make pure logic sense.
It's something that you begin to feel in your hands
as much as your mind.


Tinkering brings thought and action
together in some very powerful, magical ways.

I manipulated his words, using enjambment to allow his words to linger
and absorb
with the white space after the line.

He's as much a poet as an "Innovation Expert."
I consider this an extended metaphor for you practice of meditation, yoga, life.

So today I am...
Letting go of pressure to be right,
and tinkering.

When we do so,

We realize

that we are more than our ego and mind.


When we let go,

we breathe

and we are open to embracing change.


Have a wonderful day. Sit for 15. Then, go play.

Tinkering, and questing,

Kevin