Lean into uncertainty

WHAT’S THIS WORLD COMING TO?

 if it feels like you are in the battle for everything Because of so much uncertainty power up with curiosity 

Several years ago a group named. “Five For Fighting” had a hit album titled “The Battle for Everything”.”  The group was really just a really good vocalist with his piano and  the two biggest. Hits were  100 years which was on that CD and Superman which was a movie/tv show theme.  There’s some good music on the CD if you are into being curious and looking at things from  an alternative  point of view (hint perhaps the author of this blog is..LOL)

So here’s the thing.... around the world and  here in the US we are in  a whirlpool of  uncertain health matters that have the probable   Impact of an economic earthquake, and many people are  experiencing an emotional twister that makes the Grand Canyon  look like a  crack in the ground.    Okay you say...I’m going overboard—I say NO!!!!

If we’ve ever had a chance for becoming curious about about how we allocate public resources, private generosity, and most important  our collective and individual time— now is that chance.  We have a beautiful opportunity to  do some social experimentation. On how to  care for communities rather than individuals.  We have  a perspective on the interweaving of our workforce/government/ creative problem solving, and logistics efforts as a country and a planet.  No one  is likely to worry about their fellow citizen if that  citizen is asking what needs to change instead of  do you think it’s time for a change?  As things break, we are going to learn what we take for granted, which of our system are Most resilient  and which ones have outlived their utility.  As Yogi Berrra says you can learn a lot just by looking at something” —and this is our chance to  use our curious minds to look at may things.  We don’t need to be asking “are things going to change. After this?’  The question is  how are things going to change and who is going to  be at the table with courage and curiousity fueled ideas?  Who is going to struggle with fear and try to claim nothing  needs to change?  

So I was walking through the store today—-yesterday there was toilet paper!  However, no potatoes and no bread.... So what to do?  Seems to me tortillas can.be the bread element and so we bought some of those and  if you want buns?  Well frozen biscuits of course!   So you have to cut them in half...oh well.  Plenty of Cake mixes on the shelf and as a former. Leader in France once. Said after hearing the peasants  complain  about not have. Bread...”let them eat cake!”  The point is...it only takes a few minutes to release. Your mind and you can find all types a of “bread” at the store.  Pancakes—they are bread.... Waffles (another form of pancakes just designed to hold more syrup...they are bread... so if you have mix for these things you have bread!  

In summary we have sone great opportunities to learn a lot about ourselves (more so if we don’t have to take time  assigning  blame to  people for how things got to be this way) and We have a marvelous chance to experiment  in all areas including our kitchen.  

This whole situation reminds me of the old comedy lines...This is no time to panic?  No this is the perfect time to panic!—However... this is also the perfect time to become ultra curious... this is the time to unleash  your creativity and let curiousity blow holes in any walls of ear..... 

People are wondering if and when things will return  to “normaL?”   Perhaps it is time time to ask the. Question does peace and joy depend upon or bloom in the soil of “normal?  Can we step outside the lines and  see what may be possible?  

Now when some of us feel  the most vulnerable, it is time for the leaders inside us and amongst us to be strong with our  curiosity—provide  an abundance of  community caring to serve as an example of  getting connected while staying physically apart.  

You have spent  enough time on reading this today so it’s time for some action... 

Find three questions. In. The universe and seek the. Answers and share them with someone else. Today.... I’ll be doing the same.

My Questions—-

1. How many people know that St. Patrick wasn’t even Irish?  
2. How many people do you  smile at every day?
3. What’s the first sound you would like to hear in the morning?

You’ll have my answers. Tomorrow..

Be a soldier of curiosity  In the army of Change!