Today I was writing or struggling to write when I came up a draft email I began about PROCESS while also reading some arguments/discussion on a difficult issue. SO ...
So -- there are two views on process. One current and popular view is:
"It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters, in the end." ~Ursula K. Le Guin~
Another view is:
"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."~ Eric Hoffer ~
I think there are often two views on anything, or at least two views, for instance:
To be or not to be...To believe or not to believe..To do or not do...Here and thereNow and then... and later on!etc, etc, and absolutely.
An alternate view of things and one which might be less divisive would be to consider a Continuum. Are most issues on some kind of continuum? We think about good and bad... or Right and wrong... etc.. yet there is GRAY. Plain ordinary gray. Not White. Not Black. A continuum might look like the Bell Curve. Or is could be a Rainbow!
With a GRAY Continuum there are extremes. With a Rainbow Continuum we can recognize many places to rest and enjoy some preference we have as we recognize we have a preference. Some may go to Red/Infra-red and some may go to Violet/Ultra-violet while others will rest at orange or yellow or green or shades of red or blue. I can't say what the various colors mean to you or me but I can respect the individuality of the differences and wonder about the beauty of the possible combinations.
