Dan Young
@dan0young.bsky.social
Reframing questions & designing conversations. Staying curious. Making sense of mess. He/him. whenandhowstudios.com
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Dan Young
@dan0young.bsky.social
· Dec 19
“The essence of transformation is neither the caterpillar nor the butterfly, but rather what happens in between. And when we look "in between" we see precisely — nothing, for the form has been dissolved on the one side, and hasn't happened yet on the other”
- Harrison Owen, Spirit
- Harrison Owen, Spirit
Reposted by Dan Young
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
-- Doris Lessing, 'The Golden Notebook'
-- Doris Lessing, 'The Golden Notebook'
January 1, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
-- Doris Lessing, 'The Golden Notebook'
-- Doris Lessing, 'The Golden Notebook'
“We will have to find the strength to carry the heaviest of all burdens - an empty bag of tricks”
- Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles
- Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles
December 31, 2024 at 9:19 PM
“We will have to find the strength to carry the heaviest of all burdens - an empty bag of tricks”
- Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles
- Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles
“Good questions work on us, we don’t work on them.”
- Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes
- Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes
December 22, 2024 at 8:31 AM
“Good questions work on us, we don’t work on them.”
- Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes
- Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes
“We don’t have a word for non-linear in our languages because nobody would consider travelling, thinking or talking in a straight line in the first place. The winding path is just how a path is, and therefore it needs no name”
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
December 22, 2024 at 8:09 AM
“We don’t have a word for non-linear in our languages because nobody would consider travelling, thinking or talking in a straight line in the first place. The winding path is just how a path is, and therefore it needs no name”
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
Reposted by Dan Young
December 19, 2024 at 12:30 AM
“We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
December 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM
“We think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson
— Emily Dickinson
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
"Forever is composed of nows."
— Emily Dickinson
— Emily Dickinson
‘There is no hostile world out there plotting our demise. There is no “out there“ for anyone to occupy. We are utterly intertwined’
- Meg Wheatley & Myron Keller-Rogers, A Simpler Way
- Meg Wheatley & Myron Keller-Rogers, A Simpler Way
December 19, 2024 at 3:13 PM
‘There is no hostile world out there plotting our demise. There is no “out there“ for anyone to occupy. We are utterly intertwined’
- Meg Wheatley & Myron Keller-Rogers, A Simpler Way
- Meg Wheatley & Myron Keller-Rogers, A Simpler Way
"What gives you the right to define a good death for anyone else?" she demanded again.
"By the power vested in me by absolutely no one at all, I will define a good death", I said. "You could try too, if you want".
- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise.
"By the power vested in me by absolutely no one at all, I will define a good death", I said. "You could try too, if you want".
- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise.
December 19, 2024 at 3:11 PM
"What gives you the right to define a good death for anyone else?" she demanded again.
"By the power vested in me by absolutely no one at all, I will define a good death", I said. "You could try too, if you want".
- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise.
"By the power vested in me by absolutely no one at all, I will define a good death", I said. "You could try too, if you want".
- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise.
“The essence of transformation is neither the caterpillar nor the butterfly, but rather what happens in between. And when we look "in between" we see precisely — nothing, for the form has been dissolved on the one side, and hasn't happened yet on the other”
- Harrison Owen, Spirit
- Harrison Owen, Spirit
December 19, 2024 at 12:44 PM
“The essence of transformation is neither the caterpillar nor the butterfly, but rather what happens in between. And when we look "in between" we see precisely — nothing, for the form has been dissolved on the one side, and hasn't happened yet on the other”
- Harrison Owen, Spirit
- Harrison Owen, Spirit