Comments on: Life doesn’t go in Straight Lines http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/ small bites to think talk & walk Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:45:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Natalie Shell http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/#comment-18311 Natalie Shell Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:40:33 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/#comment-18311 Stories move in circles. They don't move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories insidestories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you're lost, you start to look around and to listen. Corer Fischer, Albert Greenberg, and Naomi Newman of A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Coming from a Great Distance - discovered via http://www.deenametzger.com/ discovered via exploring the Storyfield Conference website - I would like to learn more about and from deena somehow Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines.
So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories insidestories
and stories between stories, and finding your way through them
is as easy and as hard as finding your way home.
And part of the finding is the getting lost.
And when you’re lost, you start to look around and to listen.

Corer Fischer, Albert Greenberg, and Naomi Newman
of A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Coming from a Great Distance - discovered via http://www.deenametzger.com/ discovered via exploring the Storyfield Conference website - I would like to learn more about and from deena somehow

]]> By: marge Schiller http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/#comment-315 marge Schiller Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:53:46 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/#comment-315 I want to hear your thoughts on Mandalas- the shell is one of the classics. Just ame back from a great graphic recording seminar that suggested 7 ways of recording material..... Posters Lists Cluster Diagrams Matrixes/Models Organization diagrams Flow Charts and Mandalas going from the simplest to the most complex- I am experimenting with starting each morning designing a mandala for the day (kind of a blog with an audience of one:me) so tell me what you think and tell me how you are. Happy Passover. Marge I want to hear your thoughts on Mandalas- the shell is one of the classics. Just ame back from a great graphic recording seminar that suggested 7 ways of recording material…..
Posters
Lists
Cluster Diagrams
Matrixes/Models
Organization diagrams
Flow Charts
and Mandalas
going from the simplest to the most complex-
I am experimenting with starting each morning designing a mandala for the day (kind of a blog with an audience of one:me)

so tell me what you think and tell me how you are.
Happy Passover.
Marge

]]> By: Augustus http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/#comment-223 Augustus Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:58:54 +0000 http://natalieshell.com/2006/03/23/life-doesnt-go-in-straight-lines/#comment-223 it's a good entry Natnat. And thank your grandmother again, it had a real impact on me. A simple but true point. And thank you Lord that life 'doesn’t go in straight lines darling...' Although, as you say we like linear, or rather patterns. They bring warmth, and 'it was meant to be' conversations with others and ourselves. I'm unclear whether or not it's a deliberate avoidance on our parts; this blindness to the irregular path of our lives. Is it because there is too much to explain, too much to make a coherent story from, when looking at the micro level? Perhaps we just like to observe the end effect: the macro? That is, simply, it could be a matter of chosen perspective. Because like Brownian motion there are two apparently contradictory qualities. That which is chaotic (at a molecule level) and that which is an observable order (at the collective level). So we miss the chaos only to see that over time we have expanded, evenly. p.s. I think I am saying what you have already... perhaps I just wanted to say Brownian motion just the once today? Humm... it’s a good entry Natnat. And thank your grandmother again, it had a real impact on me. A simple but true point. And thank you Lord that life ‘doesn’t go in straight lines darling…’ Although, as you say we like linear, or rather patterns. They bring warmth, and ‘it was meant to be’ conversations with others and ourselves. I’m unclear whether or not it’s a deliberate avoidance on our parts; this blindness to the irregular path of our lives. Is it because there is too much to explain, too much to make a coherent story from, when looking at the micro level? Perhaps we just like to observe the end effect: the macro? That is, simply, it could be a matter of chosen perspective. Because like Brownian motion there are two apparently contradictory qualities. That which is chaotic (at a molecule level) and that which is an observable order (at the collective level). So we miss the chaos only to see that over time we have expanded, evenly.

p.s. I think I am saying what you have already… perhaps I just wanted to say Brownian motion just the once today? Humm…

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