I just started reading today a book by Margaret Wheatley (one of my leadership gurus who wrote Leadership and The New Science that I had with me when I was with you) and Deborah Frieze called Walk Out Walk On, A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. Over the past few years these two women identified 7 different communities around the world who have taken on challenging problems locally and "discovered enduring solutions and created healthy and resilient communities by working together in new and different ways." All of which brought back to me listening to you each and all sharing your dreams from your AI active research projects.
The first of the seven communities is in Zapatista land in southern Mexico and ends with this:
Why Change Happens
The only reason change happens on this planet
the only readon change ignites across networks,
the only reason Daniel's invention finds new forms
as he carries it from Mexico to India,
the only reason Unitierra succeeds in creating joyful universities,
the only reason Zapatistas speak to the hearts of millions,
the only reason seven trees planted in Kenya blossom across Africa
into forests of forty million.....
The only reason these changes happen is because of people.
People who discover they're creative and caring.
People who know others are like them, creative and caring.
People who learn to trust themselves and everyone else.
People who know that dreams only manifest when shared.
People who pour time and love into creating
the places where ever more people,
no matter how oppressed or beaten down,
will step forward and
confidently, predictable, miraculously
discover their true human spirits.
Are you a Zapatista?
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