Category: Retrospectives
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Retrospective 2020-30
This is a summary of my painting, reading, and writing last week. Painting I painted this, which is from Trådarön, Sweden. Reading I have continued to immerse myself in Norm and Skye Hirst’s writings: Norm Hirst, Norm Hirst, Abstract: Organismic Biology. Norm and Skye Hirst, UP Close and Personal to Our Medical Health Care System:…
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Retrospective 2020-29
This is a summary of my painting, reading, and writing this week (week 29, 2020). Painting I painted this from on a photo by Skye Hirst. Related to my painting, I also made the following note to self: Maybe the universe is Whole the way a painting is Whole? A brush stroke in a corner…
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Retrospective 2020-28
This is a summary of my reading this week (week 28, 2020). I am currently immersing myself in Norm and Skye Hirst’s writings. Their work is available at the Autognomics website. I also received a USB flash drive with additional files this week. Thank you, Skye! Here is my summary of Norm Hirst’s Propositions on…
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Retrospective 2020-27
This is a summary of my reading and painting last week (week 27, 2020). Painting I painted this portrait of my son Eric. Reading Books I read Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. Extraordinary Knowing is an exploration of what science has to say about…
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Retrospective 2020-19–26
This is a summary of my reading and painting during the last two months (week 19–26, 2020). Painting I painted the following landscapes and flowers. My painings are here. Reading I read the following books (almost in the order read): Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall Leadership, New and Revised: The…
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Retrospective 2020-04
This is a summary of last week’s reading and painting. Painting There’s an old tree close to where I live. Below are three paintings where I have explored its shape. Reading I’ve continued reading Sidney Dekker’s The Safety Anarchist. Dekker describes how a single-minded pursuit of rationality — hierarchical decision-making, centralized control, measurements — gives…
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Retrospective 2020-03
This is a summary of last week’s reading. I have read Stanislav Grof’s When the Impossible Happens. Grof mentions how various destructive and self-destructive patterns are being passed from one generation to another. A similar pattern operates on the collective level. Unbridled violence and insatiable greed keep breading new violence and immense suffering. I have…
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Retrospective 2020-02
This is a summary of last week’s reading. I’ve mentioned previously that I feel a need to wrap-up my series of posts on deeper generative organizing. One way of saying it is that: “There is no formula, except this is a formula.”1 As soon as we rely on formulas, procedures, and defined processes, we become…
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Retrospective 2020-01
This is a retrospective of my reading last year. Introduction Looking back, I realize that I read less than half of what I used to read. I also realize that I published very few book reviews (see end of post). The reason is that I started painting and love it! Below are lists of the…
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Retrospective 2019-52
This is a look back at last week’s reading, blogging, and painting. Reading I’ve continued reading F. David Peat. I finished reading From Certainty to Uncertainty, and re-read Peat’s books on Gentle Action and Synchronicity. I started my inquiry into deeper generative organizing after having read David Bohm and F. David Peat’s book Science, Order,…