Replying to LO31015 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > wrote:
>What a true work of art are the seven essentialities.
>
>Thank you for sharing them.
Greetings Andrew,
Thank you. The pleasure to share them is mine.
But they can be great obstacles as i have experienced.
I am writing an essay on "The wholeness of knowledge" for more than a
year. I am not happy with it and keep on modifying it. The reason? My
"knowledge of wholeness" is too inferior to complete the essay! (For
fellow learners new to this LO-list -- wholeness is one of the seven
essentialities or 7Es for short.)
Compare this to another essay which i m am working on, namely
"The wholeness of love". I know that my "love for wholeness" need to
increase, but here it is not an obstacle. The reason? Love forgives which
knowledge cannot. My mind is racing over a vast expanse when thinking
of seven possibly essays on love by using each of the 7Es to get another
persepctive on it or the colour of the rainbow of love.
The liveness of love
The sureness of love
The wholeness of love
The fruitfulness of love
The spareness of love
The otherness of love
The openness of love
The concept wholeness is an intellectual creation trying to capture
something innate to nature. The OED gives a fine account of the
history of the usage of this English word. However, tracing the
history of the usage of the concept wholeness and not the English word
for it, is has been an extremely difficult task for me. I am pretty
sure that whoever will want to write a book with the title "The
history of the concept wholeness" will experience it too.
Sometimes i think that Senge ought to write a sequel to the Fifth
Discipline (5th pointing to Systems Thinking) called the Sixth
Discipline (6th pointting to the Art of Loving). As far as my own
experiences of belonging to a LO go, what makes them so different from
ordinary organisations is the abundance of love in them.
Once you have learned how to use the 7Es, you will not be "happless
and helpless in happenstances" any more.
You wrote about the wren visiting the water bowl. It made me smile.
Its close to autumn now. The days are still hot, but the temperature
at night is dropping fast. Inside my fish hatchery it is hot and
humid. At night the past week or two, when i go to it to have a last
look if everything is still OK, i have to nudge with my foot several
toads away. They are sitting close to the door, wanting to jump inside
as soon as i open it. Sometimes i forget about them so that when they
jump inside, it is a race to catch all of them before they get into a
hiding place.
I have a few of them in the hatchery because they are nature's best
insect control. Inspect the stool of a toad and you will find dozens
of skulls of all kinds of insects. I used to have a problem with rats,
a problem typical to all hatcheries. But since the few taods took
shelter in mine, i have not seen a rat or even one stool of it. Toads
eat (gulp) mice -- i have seen it with my own eyes. But a rat is too
big. Yet, because of its evolution, it still fears toads.
I wish i could accomodate dozens of toads. But they will only starve
and their croaking will drive me mad. The few which lives in the
hatchery already make a lot of noise. There is one whose croak is
hoarse broken with squeeks between -- a sound which you may not want
to hear.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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