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You can read that here:

http://chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/?p=860

I’ve been simmering your post and the rich response in the back of mind for the past few days, and now feeling like I’d like to pour a little something in the pot too before too long (because although old blog posts don’t get stale, they do disappear from the screen after a while!) …even though these ingredients are still pretty raw…

I am thinking about the act and metaphor of harvesting, and how we use that metaphor in Chinese medicine, how it describes one of the cycling seasons of human life…we think of the act of harvesting as gathering up the fruits (grains, seeds, etc) of the season before–the fruits being the nourishing, assimilable parts produced by everything we’ve been exposed to and learned and lived through–leaving behind any rotten and maybe the unripe specimens, the stems and the chaff and the stuff that’s not edible (but will often become compost or somehow nourishing for the ground that produced the fruit). So there is discernment involved regarding what’s going to be picked, gathered, stored, eaten, and you don’t usually pick it all (I don’t know how this can apply to the kind of harvesting you are writing about but will toss it out there anyway)

We connect harvesting with the function of digestion, too, with absorption, assimilation, transformation and transportation (throughout the body). Which might be part of the next steps that follow the story harvest that you describe. How will what’s harvested be prepared in order to become nourishment? Is it already delicious and ready to eat? Or does it need to be shelled and fermented and dried and roasted and crushed and melted (I’m thinking of the sacred cacao bean on its way to chocolate!). This seems like item #4 on the AoH page you link to–taking the fruits you’ve collected and in various ways deriving the nourishment/meaning/patterns that will be useful.

Then the next season after the harvest is as essential as every other–having the quiet, slow, fallow time after the harvest is gathered in, having time to draw on what’s been stored up, to allow the life which produced the harvest to hunker down and gestate the seeds from the fruits, underground and in the dark.

thanks for the sparks!

Two things have me going from what you have said here: the abstract art not capturing but freeing what cannot be well held in words. There is something emergent here….

Second, Peggy’s post reminds me of the oft-heard phrase, “It is what it is.” So the second ripple for me from this conversation is What if it isn’t what it is?

It is something to rest on, like the pieces of The Tao of Holding Space….

:- Doug.

A couple thoughts to weave into the mix.

IMAGINING THE FUTURE INTO BEING
On Time Modes, the idea of harvesting from the future for me has roots in what I have learned through working with Appreciative Inquiry (AI). The essential core of AI is that positive image leads to positive action. Said another way, we can create what we can imagine. That’s the point of an appreciative inquiry – through understanding the best of “what is” and “what is possible”, by following the life-energy of our individual and collective imagination, we internalize and integrate powerful images of the future we want. I actually find the metaphor of harvest a misnomer for this. For me, this is more of a calling into being through naming something; we imagine the future into existence.

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THE GIFT OF THE ARTIST

A major insight for me of our gathering is the role of the artist in carrying the meaning of a meeting beyond the event. The video Thomas Arthur made of our session was strikingly beautiful. Even without much content incorporated as yet, he captured the energy and spirit of our time together. I could see in a way I have never appreciated before how art carries meaning with great depth and power.

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RIPPLES
One thread that most excited me in our conversation was the idea of ripples…what enables a gathering to have life and influence beyond the people in the room? You told a story of this Chris, in which grant recipients, rather than reporting back to a foundation, were required to share what they learned in a gathering of peers. Their documents were made available in an archives. The combination created a feedback loop, in which others had a chance to interact and learn from their peers. For me, that took the art of harvesting from a static process into a living, ongoing practice.

So the learning continues….