The people in the room are the pattern
the voices, perspectives together
we are the same
with busy heads
we choose
to listen
life will be ok
we do need each other
we do need perspectives
to discern
to appreciate
to hear it out
to think through, checking reality
to think through what it will take
to survive
threat by threat
experience by experience
difference by difference
reinforcing appreciation
and flow forward
together
each doing one thing deeply
to work on it all
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A poem caught as participants noticed what they learned after a day of Collaborating in Complexity – Navigating the Systems of Community, my advanced training session delivered with Marilyn Hamilton, at FCM’ Sustainable Communities Conference in Charlottetown, February 11, 2014.