The Beyond and Tethering

I'm not interested in the linearity. I'm interested in the beyond. Whatever your medium is, that you use it to find happiness in your life. That you do it because you follow your curiosity that leads you to uncover truths for yourself. The medium is not a means to an end, but an opportunity to discover and uncover possibilities and treasures of the world.

I'm interested in the richness of it all beyond just the thing of it, whatever the thing may be. I'm interested in the interconnectedness of media and uncovering how one is affected by another.  I value that whatever your "thing" is, that you use it to excavate and illuminate your truth. The doing to get to the 'work' IS the actual work that gets you somewhere different than the initial destination. Process over the product. One must make the product the goal so that s/he goes through the process. They are interconnected. In that sense, the journey is transitory. You tether yourself to a tangible goal and have a clear destination--but in going out and seeking it--the  path leads you somewhere else.  One must be open to the zig zags that come up during the quest for the initial 'destination'- that is the actual goal. It is about being open to having something fixed to attain, going out to attain it and on the journey on the way to attaining it, being aware of new possibilities that come up on the way to attaining it.

Today (6.28.13) in our first Bates 3.0 meeting with a therapist prior to kids arrivial, she said:
 "the exploration of the problem brings up the solutions"
similar to this idea of the "beyond and tethering." In this example: we are not responsible to fix the problems that the kids come to us with, instead, we should use this as an opportunity to guide them to explore ways to think about their concerns, and in doing that, the solutions start to come up . . .



"In every job that must be done there is an element of fun, you find the fun - and SNAP - the job's a game."

I'm very interested in opposites.

• "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -Scott F. Fitzgerald