The World We Want, According to Jean

Jean Russell, being a writer, as well as an action-oriented personal coach, actually completed Peter's entire writing prompt, ending with the most practical part.

Based on your experience, what parts of the vision are realistic and what ideas, strategies and plans can make it so?

My vision is not only realistic; it is already in motion. The main question is about timing. How soon will we change? How many of us need to have an awakening in order to tip the change?

I partner, as I can, with those who are doing everything they can to enable the dawning of a new age of sustainability, respect, honor, and ecological awareness. I spread the word to you, and you pass it on. If it is a message people are ready for, it will spread virally far and wide. If not, we re-work the message, lay more groundwork, develop more tools, share more information, and reach out to more hearts.

I believe...
I have a dream...
I hope.

Jean, ends with the pronoun, "I," but her text and her effort is all for a larger "we," in community with others and already moving, "I partner where iI can...." She understands that Peter's questions are a mirror in which we read our identities, and she shrewdly turns the mirror slantwise so we catch a global community of faces, not just her own. Thank you, Jean!

Comments

[Michael]

With Web 2.0 and power to Edges and bringing more people online (HCE!) in productive use of their voices we'll see quite a powerful force emerge.

[phil]

Michael, particularly if we manage to get people to connect to one another from the beginning around themes like giving, or volunteering. It takes a critical mass, as you know, of 5+ people in a little blogging group, all linking to one another and commenting on each other's blog, to make a topic and conversation come alive. Blogging alone is lonley and comulsive. Ideally, the O.net cadre, when they blog, will link to one another. Maybe form a "blogring?"

[Gerry]

Michael, have you written a response to the original prompt questions? Does that post get a prominent sidebar link to invite others to write responces?

[Gerry]

Yes, there it is: first item under "The World We Want" heading in the right sidebar.

[Spinorb]

Thank you Phil for linking to my post. Humbly grateful.

I should definitely add something specific about blogging--the ability for individuals online to become publishers of their own. We can connect and discuss in ways we never could before and do it cheaper and more openly than ever before.

I better update my links.

[Phil]

Blogs are good for "we formation." The "we" evolves from the I's" who begin to link, converse, and grow together into a little community of affinity. The real pleasure is in the interlinking of posts and comments, as here. So, thanks, Jean for contributing your fine essay to the mix.