Hi David
I love your idea of a journey - and I confess to a twinge of envy that you seem to have already "found your voice" to start the exploration.
I hesitate to begin - and yet I long to - so with no clear voice I will quickly start to collect up what I already have relevant to this journey. I'll scatter it around us and see what might be useful to bring along.
Regarding maps and journeys
- I see the future as an unknown country, and one where we have to go, like or not. Even if it looks physically the same the ways will function in it will be very different - so in a way we are all time-travellers.
- I've thought of writing some kind of rough guide for people to help them make sense of it when they suddenly realise that previous strategies aren't working - when they discover that their way of doing things ... all their "usually(s)" aren't there to call on any more. It'll be a bit like when you move to a new place and change job (and maybe relationships too) and everything is new all at once and you can't do anything in automatic mode any more - nothing at all unless you decide about it - not even putting out the washing or making a "cuppa" can be done in automtic mode the way you "usually" do.
- It has a title - "The Reluctant Time Traveller '
- I wonder what overlap mayl emerge between that idea and what we are doing..
- I'm doing a meetup related to the future and this unknown landscape on October 20h - http://www.meetup.com/Dadamac/events/36175962/
- I've done other work on "journeys" - related to the idea of "learning journeys", which we did in 2008 at the Knowledge Resource Centre at Fantsuam when I was introducing the idea of "self-directed learning". (more info available if you want it - I could find you links or you could drop words into the search box)
- That's enough of a list for now - but there is more in my mind
Hmm - what a prosaic unpoetic start.
i wanted to wait until I could write at leisure - but there hasn't been any leisure time yet (even now I'm writing this with half an eye on a skype meeting (Nikki next to me telling me when I need to check the archive and respond) - and wih half an eye on the clock - knowing you will be in London later today and there is a chance of meeting you F2F (but I don't want to meet you before responding to your invitation to this journey),
I want to go to in a leisruely and appeciative way inot this imaginative journey - with time to stop along the way and savour waht you are writing - l'm reminded of of a Cornish lane, down the hill from where we lived when my children were young - and remembering walking there , down toward the stream under the viaduct, with some visitors and a toddler who kept stopping and saying "Look a' dat!" (or "Look a' look a' dat!" or even "Look a' look a' look a' dat" depending just how "look-worthy" the iem was that had attracted his gaze).
I rememeber turning it into a game with my chldren one day when they were dragging along on the long walk home, i hoped it would somehow distract them from the tedium of the steep hill we were climbing and help us to get home quicker. So we played "Lookadat, all walking along, bent over, eyes as close to the ground as a two-year old - looking with new wonder at things that usually passed unnoticed beneath our feet. (We had to stop - we were finding too many treasures and making even slower progress than before)
I must post this quickly now - I'll text you to see if there is a chance of paths crossing later today - odd that now we are meeting virtually we do get a chance fo a rare F2F
Bye for now.