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The old one sits and smiles under a canopy seeded long before. The shade that grows and feeds. Seeded in soil they created. Bowels and exo-bowels slowly feeding the desert that lays before them.  Soon they will move again. A new canopy must grow. The green tide must lap once more on desert shores, leavingContinue reading “The Mushroom and the Lizard”

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. William Gibson Many of you will be familiar with the above quote, it’s widely distributed, yet it’s a memetic hazard as outlined below by Igor Swarzman The more we rely on this quote as a mantra, the more we relinquish our own agency.Continue reading “Grow the future you wish for”

work in progress, thinking in public Some seeds take the form of words. They grow through use. So use them. Attend, evolve and add to them. Ideally a seed idea should be self contained, clear and transparent – Simple. Yet iWe have surrounded them here with the contextual fruit of their use, that they mayContinue reading “Seed Library”

A forest speaks. The following story is intended to be kind. Whether it is true or not is tricky. As truth it is many spores, seeds, and sperm with the potential to become a forest of ideas. Requiring soil or egg with which to develop a relationship. A nurturing context in which to grow andContinue reading “Conversations with beings at different scales and speeds”

The game plays us. We talk of AI and our fears. Yet the reality is we are already running multiple Algorithms of multiple distributed Symbiotic Intelligences. From Corporations (literal lawful embodiments of ideological spirit forms) to religion, to culturally distributed patterns of behavior. Each idea we hold, shapes our perception of reality, it shapes ourContinue reading “The Game Plays Us”

Universal BeingWelcome to EarthHere is shelterThe feeling of homeA family to hold youA place to belongHere is foodWater and seedHere may we meetAll of your needsMay you find rest herePleasure and playDarkness at nightSun in the DayMay you find chances toExpress and createNon harmful waysTo make your mistakes.We ask you to help usTo make thisContinue reading “Welcome Home”

In ancient timesWhen food would bubble and rotHunger led us to taste the brewTo find beer, cheese and pickle in the potNow in more affluent timesWe shun such lifeAnd are poorer for itDo not turn from deathFor death is lifeInstead taste the flavors that emergeBe the yeast that transforms

City lights go out How brightly shine the stars now Stories in the sky

There’s a wolf at the doorHe’s pointing at the poorTelling you to be afraidLet me in little pigThe smiling wolf saysI’ll keep those nasty pigs at bayYet you can’t see from the fearon your chinny chin chinIs they are hereCos the wolf blew their house in.But my house is bricks you cryThese fools used sticksContinue reading “Wolf”