We want fire: setting our dry world ablaze.

We want earthquakes: dramatically shaking things up.

We want wind: blowing through the staleness of how things are.

We can often miss gentle whisper, the thin silence, through which comes the question, “What must you do?”

Emerging futures appears in the thin silences between ideas and people and spaces.

It requires we enter silent, empty places, and we fear these more than the wind, earthquake, and fire.

I’ve come to enjoy the silences most of all, though.  Each day I have to find time to listen deeply, and then bring into my day what I hear.  Wherever I am able I seek to bring silence to others, out of which some new activity emerges.

Instead of looking for the next fire, earthquake, or wind, from someone or somewhere else, why not go to the thin silences?

Instead of waiting for fire, why not make some?  Instead of waiting for the earth to move, why not be the one who causes it to shift?

In the thin silences, we find we’re more than capable.

Just a thought.

(Cartoon: The will develop in a number of images and be included in this blog.)