GREAT ADAPTATIONS

I consider it my happy fate to engage the collective imagination as a kind of reciprocal playground. Part of this is raising people’s recognition of possibility. I’ve been mulling over my own life-journey into possibility, looking for the high points where I expanded my capacities and trying to see how I did that.  Here are some of those high points.

A Dawning Connection

Back in 1990, isolated in the Sonoma county redwoods, I discovered I could interact with artists all over the country on a strange communication vehicle called Prodigy. My fascination with the potential of the Internet as a way to connect individuals and communities had already been piqued, five years earlier, when I discovered Peter Russell’s film “The Global Brain.” Like the World Wide Web which was still gestating, my brain was sending out its dendritic fingers trying to comprehend what was on the horizon.

Ten years later I was one of the first members of the online community called “Wacco,” based in west Sonoma county. This Yahoo group grew into a juicy, productive community hub, reaching 3,000 members by 2005. Like other locals I used Wacco daily to check in, find all kinds of solutions, and share everything from carpools to class announcements. On Wacco we gathered support for the injured or sick, gave each other advice, traded stuff, referred jobs, carpooled, found lost dogs, fought, argued and made up, threw parties, and grew our community web.

A Growing Inspiration

My conviction that the Internet is a tool for cultural transformation continues to deepen. While I worked on my book, “Little Shifts,” I always kept this potential on the table. The website you are now on is the culmination of seven years of planning, writing, fits and starts, and growing with the technology. My passion is the ongoing conversation in a world community of creatives, thinkers and achievers, entrepreneurs and cultural innovators. I am inspired by the accomplishments - and the generosity - of so many contemporary innovators. I focus on brain fitness and the power of our imagination because these are the things I relate to the most. After all, how can we innovate if our brains quit working? This is my way of keeping my community fit and engaged for the promising world I believe is now unfolding.

From Little Shifts:

“We must begin now, with small steps, today, to recognize and become all that we are meant to be: Powerfully imaginative, multidimensional beings walking on the earth with compassion, joy, and an open-armed inspiration to share with the world. We are the material of a metamorphosis.”

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