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Looked up Adrienne Maree Brown after her brief chapter on emergent strategy. Still utopian but in a more scientific way? Reminiscent of when Carlos Rovelli on quantum physics starts to remind you of a philosopher

Didn’t finish in time before it was due back to the library but I loved this!

I attended a Yawanawa Singing Circle hosted by a German medicine woman in Kenya. She acknowledged that neither she nor her (native) teachers knew the meaning of the words they sang, but were preserving the tradition for its emotional resonance. Which I read as, « we hope that someday we’ll understand better why it feels significant to do this » Cool mystery! Not a basis for running modern organizations

The essay written by the forester was, to me, more compelling than the long excerpt (from Mitchell’s book?) in advocating for fresh paradigms on which to base our relationship with nature. Indigenous knowledge is incomplete in the same way that scientific knowledge is incomplete; deifying one in response to historical deification of the other does not somehow achieve balance.