Just doing it

Playing music rather than talking about it

I’m coming back from Hahopa with simplicity ringing in my ears.  I think the mantra is “put something in your hands.”

At Hahopa we cooked together, wove cedar together, trained with swords together, played lahal and sang songs.  We DID a lot.  And in our doing we could reflect on our being.  And from our being we can create a view of what else we might do.

I spend a lot of time helping people plan things.  But I am noticing that people want plans that promise a great future, but are afriad to start doing things.  Heading into a set of meetings this week with some Chruches here in BC, I think I’m curious mto ask “What do you want to be doing that you aren’t doing now?”  And by this question I don’t mean “What do you want other people to do?”  I mean, what are you willing to start now that would help us become something that we wanted to become.  Let’s do more of that and THEN we can see what we have learned.

Visioning and creating a common purpose is cool but it often assumes that we know what the future will hold or that we can guess what will be useful.  We need to be more adaptable.  We need to look at what is stopping us from DOING the things we want to do, and focusing on removing the barriers to that, whether those are resources or fears or time.