Unsilting
December has flown by so fast that I didn’t even notice I hadn’t written a post here for the whole of this month? Scary indeed…
As too usual this past year, my apologies once more. There’s so much going on, at every scale, that I really do need to get back here, get back working on this, connecting, reconnecting, while the world changes ever faster around us.
It’s an odd mixture of a time: on the one side, acutely aware of how urgent it is to get everything ready for the changes coming our way, keep the right balance of Chief Encouragement Officer, of optimistic-realism and realistic-optimism; and yet, at the same time, continually falling back to that bad habit of withdrawing into a kind of null-space, of avoiding the world. Not good.
In some ways the feeling right now is that I’m like a river that’s somehow become silted up, by allowing the silt and detritus of the world to block whatever flow might come my way.
Which means that to turn it around, I need to undertake a deliberate process of unsilting - re-find the flow, to let it carry the silt downstream into the broader and more shared parts of the river, and open up enough space for this part of the stream to take on its own new shape.
The cause of this ‘silting up’ hasn’t been as simple as just ‘avoiding the world’, though - though these days, yeah, there’s so much out there that probably anyone would want to avoid facing… In my case it seems in part more to be the usual slow-down after the sheer full-on two-year slog of getting a major book-project at last out of the way a few weeks back. There’s all the backlog of other work from during that project that needs to be faced, and the follow-on from that project, too -= neither of which I seem to be able to tackle right now. And there’s also an odd kind of complacency - another theme I need to re-explore here soon - that started to feed quietly into the picture after I finally found a place of my own last year, for the first time on almost a quarter-century.
Whatever the cause might be, though, I do need to get moving on this process of unsilting myself, getting the flow moving again. Not only because the world is changing, and new ways are needed to tackle that change, but also because we do now have the tools and methods to address that change, and need to get them out there for people, to help them do their own ‘unsilting’ too.
So yeah, Watch This Space - and let’s make this a Happier New Year for everyone!
Thank you all!
Many thanks, all! - and yes, let's make this a year when those needed new changes will flow, for everyone.
Unsilting makes a lot of sense Tom. All the best for 2026 and I hope you get your channels flowing like you like them. I look forward to our next catch up.