BUT HEY! If you twist a lion's tail you can learn a LOT!!
Friday, May 17, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 2024
SOCIAL SCULPTURE AS SHELTER
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“Think outside of the box.
Work outside of the box.
Dream outside of the box.
Succeed outside of the box.
The ordinary think inside of the box,
the extraordinary think outside of the box,
but genius thinks inside, outside,
below and above the box.”
Work outside of the box.
Dream outside of the box.
Succeed outside of the box.
The ordinary think inside of the box,
the extraordinary think outside of the box,
but genius thinks inside, outside,
below and above the box.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
CELEBRATING PLACEDNESS
A TRANSLATEABLE IDEA!
Speaking of England Sue Clifford , Angela King talk of a land of extraordinary variety, filled with unique buildings, captivating landscapes, and diverse people and wildlife. But like most 'places' this diversity is under siege. Mass production, increased mobility, and the forceful promotion of corporate identity have brought with them standardized stores, farms, factories, and front doors. Filled with the most distinctive tidbits of English culture past and present, places are threatened, species are going extinct.
Places need more care or we risk losing our placedness. It is said that you take away our wallets full of money you have nothing of value steal our 'places and our placedness' then you have everything that really matters! We do not own places, we occupy them and beong to them. We are obliged to treat the places we belong to with UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD UPR The doctors and nurses who care for us do this for us. We need to care for our places in the way our doctors and nurses care for us no IFS ... NO buts..
Author and radio producer Tim Dee has published Ground Work, a collection of writing on new and enduring cultural landscapes in Britain, drawing on the very best of the current flowering of nature writing as well as other original non-fiction.... Ground Work comes thirty years after Common Ground’s ground-breaking Second Nature, a collection edited by Richard Mabey (with Sue Clifford and Angela King) and published by Cape in 1984 .... Click here to go to source
THE PURPLE POD POJECT
A PURPLE SAFEplace with wheelz
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LETZ JUST GET THIS THING DONE
Friday, May 10, 2024
THE PURPLE SENSIBILITY
Sometimes we experience UPR (Unconditional Positive Regard) in our lives but when we are under the care of carers such as clinitions and especially 'nurses' it can be be a cathartic experience.
In the CARINGprofessions UPR is a professionl expectation and a standard by which Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are meassured! You'll know it when you've experienced UPR it is always LIFEchanging and very often LIFEsaving!
People in the caring professions cannot and should not be expected to LOVE a stranger but they can be required to deliver UPR !! SO, what about people who care? for places, can we expect them to unfailingly deliver UPR? If not why not? If so how so?
We have LANDcares but as yet PLACEcares haven't come together in and THEagency is looking at how that can be done. Given that bureaucracies have become RULESridden in the outcome seems to be the case that with the management of 'places' there is no room for the caring for 'places' and no clearly space left for UPR.
SO, it seems that PLACEcaring needs to be done OUTside bureaucracies and the realm of 'managerialism' and well away from MANAGERIALfiefdoms ideally.
Why? From OUTside bureaucracies and RULEpedlars' empires rules can be challenged, questioned, circumnavigated, and even broken if needed. All too often bureaucratic STUMBLEstones are there to get in the way of'PLACEDNESS' with UPR being a bridge too far.
Sadly, PLACEcaring, PLACEmaking, and PLACEscaping are damaged 'collaterally' on the grounds that the status quo must be managed and maintained. Consider what might be te driver here.
The AGENCY'S purpose for being is to challege the vectors that caues dystopia in placedness and promote UGR in PLACEmanagement.
SO
Come join a COALITION OF THE WILLING
in the PURPLE
"I alone cannot change the world,
but I can cast a stone across
the waters to create many ripples.”
Mother Teresa
PURPLEzone BRANDING
COWZ ... Coalition of the Wiklling Zone
The colour purple is generally associated with royalty, luxury, nobility, power, and ambition. Purple is also used to represent creativity, extravagance, dignity, grandeur, independence, pride, peace, mystery, and magic.
IN A PURPLE ZONE
PURPLE DENOTES nobility of intent .... empowerment to act ... ambition to change .... creativity ... dignity ... independence .... pride in placedness .... peace, mystery .... the magic that can happen when people cooperate and collaborate
The world is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
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