whirling around

The past few days have been event filled to say the least. Saturday afternoon I flew down to Santa Ana and performed some poetry as a part The Cobalt Season Show that night at the Canvas Gallery. Little did I know I'd be reconnected with Aaron Flores who runs the Gallery. Aaron is a humble soul who inhabits and experiments with new forms of leadership and emergence principles of organization. It was an inspiring reminder of the good work that is taking place along the new paradigm we swim in.

After that show we drove down to San Diego where the next morning where would be telling stories of our community through song, poetry and word at the Mission Gathering. The Mission Gathering, with it's beautiful leaders, is one of those communities with one in foot in each paradigm. Thank you Jay, Alex, Bill, etc for the wonderful conversation around lunch.

Concluding that day was a house show at Jason Evans' house. Jason and his wife Brook are part of what I would call the "Integration Movement". Where their spirituality is played out in all the details of their life and not programs administered by someone else.

The trip to Socal was a wonderful gift and I couldn't help but feel a sense of profound gratitude as I realized this was all taking part as a community of people.

Yesterday was we hosted the Spiritual Ecology Project here in San Francisco. It was the convergence of about 100 people getting together to talk about emerging spirituality and social issues. Other than feeling a little tired and run down, it was a great event. People from all different places on the conversation map showed up.

Look for more reflections from some of those conversations. Mostly around: The myth of community, the myth of flat leadership, emergence theory and verb centric language.