Doubt
This weekend, I've been thinking about doubt. I'm struck by how often we think of doubt as negative and certainty as positive. And yet I'm not sure that I agree. Isn't doubt one of the things that protects us - from disappointment, from danger, from pain? And isn't certainty one of the things that blind us - to growth, to diversity, to reality? Here is an extract from a piece I wrote today as part of my Everyday Inspiration series:
Doubt is the path to awareness, while certainty is the road to naivety.
Doubt is like a mountaineer with a walking stick, which she uses to test the ground ahead before stepping into the unknown.
Certainty is like a blind man without a stick, stumbling forward in the misguided belief that all obstacles will be cleared from his path.
You can find the full piece of prose on my website at:
www.waynevisser.com/prose_doubt.htm.
POSTED BY WayneVisser.com AT 2/17/2008 12:47 PM
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Partnership
One of the hats I wear is as internal examiner for Cambridge University's Postgraduate Certificate in Cross-Sector Partnerships. This week, I've been reviewing assignments, which got me to thinking about the concept of partnership. What does it mean to be "in partnership" with someone? What makes partnerships succeed or fail? I've captured my musings in prose as part of my Everyday Inspiration series (see www.waynevisser.com/prose.htm, note, I'm still uploading the backlog). Here's an extract:
Despite its fragility, partnership is the rule of life, rather than the exception.
The ocean partners with the sun to form rain.
The sun partners with the rain to grow plants.
Humans partner with nature and each other to form homesteads and communities, organisations and industries, nations and civilizations.
On and on it goes.
In short, life on earth is a grand experiment in partnership.
You can see the full piece on my website at:
www.waynevisser.com/prose_partnership.htm.
POSTED BY WayneVisser.com AT 2/14/2008 7:40 AM
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Fog
What a strange and eerie delight to wake up yesterday and find Cambridge blanketed in a dense cloud of fog. I was so enchanted that I wandered around in the icy hazy snapping photos at every turn. I'm inserting one here, and I'll post a set on my website soon.
I also wrote a poem called - can you guess? - Fog. Here's an extract:
I walked through the park
Fascinated
As murky phantasms emerged
And melted into thick air
Like wraiths in the netherworld
Gliding between lost and found
Hovering around murky lampposts
Searching for signs
To uncertainty
You can get the full poem on my website:
www.waynevisser.com/poem_fog.htm
POSTED BY WayneVisser.com AT 2/14/2008 7:29 AM
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Watch this space
I've spent the past month and a half revamping my website - www.waynevisser.com. It needed a new look - something a bit more creative and dramatic (I hope you like it!?). Also, a slightly modified design, so that depending on whether you are looking for Information or Inspiration, you can navigate accordingly. I will be actively populating it with more pages and downloads over the coming months, and flagging new additions on this blog, so watch this space.
POSTED BY WayneVisser.com AT 2/11/2008 10:07 AM
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Name: WayneVisser.com
Location: UK
This is not so much a diary as (in the spirit of blogging) where I share random thoughts as and when I think I have something vaguely interesting to say.
This is also the place where I will flag what's new on my website - www.waynevisser.com - especially new writing, poems and art, as they are loaded.
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