Creative Renovation

Have some renovation going on right now at the house. The process of renovation can be lengthy, messy, and noisy. Things break down, are taken apart, and are replaced. Old foundations no longer function and serve, and it's hard to navigate around the area until the the new ones are put in place. To step in and look at it in the middle of the process, it looks like an uncontrollable mess. But to step back look at the whole process, it's livable because you know the new, better foundations will eventually be put in place.

 

Maybe that's what we are in right now in the world - a giant renovation with the old breaking down and no longer serving, and the new not yet in place, so everything seems like such a uncontrollable mess in the meantime. Maybe better foundations are in the process of being co-created and built, but we're still too much in the mess to see it clearly. What if we zoom out to hold a larger story/picture/framework about what's happening?

 

That makes it a lot more livable for me than only seeing the messiness of the breakdown. In every creative emergence something falls away or breaks down, and there is a time of cloudy, discombobulated messiness before something new emerges. What if we are in that? Holding it that way makes it easier for me to stay connected to what's mine to do in the unknown messiness of this world right now.

 

How might you hold what is going on in the world that helps you better navigate and create it in a generative way (for yourself, others, and the whole), even without knowing what happens next?

 

Michelle James ©2022

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