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"How to allow the complexity of our own selves to be IN the discourse ... instead of having the discourse ABOUT complexity?" - Nora Bateson
By including art, poetry, graffiti, music in our sense-making...
Get in touch if you have a creative expression you would like to share that will help us engage with Complex Messes on a different level, putting us IN the discourse.
Advice
A proper ma’am, just out of nappies.
Well-meaning or full of hubris?
Either way, you exhaust me.
Observant, but with tunnel-vision
pecking at problems seen through your own eyes,
my capacities dulled as yours inflate.
You add to my burdens of guilt and fragility
overlooking who I am in your need to be wise.
There should be another word for this
stripped of self-importance and pride.
What poverty dwells in the English language
where one word, one gesture,
can be both so welcomed and deeply resented!
Advice needs some advice it seems.
Give me another word
where
advice is meant ….
as a word, idea, or gesture
emerging where wisdom meets silence
and careful listening banishes noise.
A sharing of our common humanity
embracing another’s frailty
to produce satisfaction – even joy.
Fiona Haines March 2024