Becoming a channel

You know you’re getting older when you strain a tendon in your little finger whilst holding a bowl. Ouch. My guitar practice will be about more compact chord voicings for the next few days I think.

Sometimes (all the time?) music needs you to be the channel for it, not the filter or the gatekeeper. Cal explors their growth as a musician in a beautiful post this morning. And my friend Luke Concannon, who is as pure a channel for music as I have ever met, has news about a new album, which I can’t WAIT to hear. I just my copy.

Making meetings a channel for good work requires asking the right questions and designing from deeper intent. Mana Shah shares her go to questions, framed through an appreciative inquiry design cycle. Helpful stuff.

A conversation in verse between Dave Pollard and PS Pirro, has me reflecting on Dave’s lines:

The problem — where it all begins, it seems —
is in the desperate need of our sad species
to find patterns, to make everything ‘fit’
into this flimsy model we mistake for reality.

I’m partial to Brian Cox’s idea that Earth could be the only place in the galaxy where meaning is made. I don’t know why, I don’t know what for, and I don’t think we are really equipped to do it well on our own. But it is something that we do, and it enlivens my animal life.

The Canadian National Men’s team set a new standard for themselves, claiming to 26th best in the world after their performances in friendlies last week. That’s the right direction.