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Now & Then
W A S H I N G T O N S, O R E G O N C O A S T S ___________
2000 Corrected for P A C IF IC BEA CHES
HIGH JUN E
DATE
As our regular readers know, we have in
these pages ranted about corporate powers and their
abuse, from the WTO to the local powers that be;
and one often hears the rebuke, “Oh, yeah, you can
bitch about it, but can you offer a better way??”
Well, no; your beloved Rev. can’t, but we
would suggest reading the words of advice Michael
Burgess gave to a new corporation on how it might
behave in this brave new cyberworld, as a starting
point for any business venture.
Consciousness in search o f context.
We
are w hat we dream and w hat we do.
You’re dreaming and doing has ju s t begun
It is with great sadness that we note the
departure from our midst of a very special friend.
Anyone who knows Peter Spud Siegel, has most likely
met his dogs Pepper and Oho. We met them about ten
years ago when they were mere pups. Obo and Pepper
are brothers, a mix of Dalmatian and Labrador — we
often told people that Obo was a Labradation and
Pepper was a Dalbrador. Pepper is white with black
spots and Obo was black with a white tip to his tail, and
a small white chest flash.
Obo was named after Obo Addy, the drummer.
Obo was a wonderful dog, but he had black dog luck.
Some dogs get hit by cars, Obo got hit by a police car.
The scrap left him with a permanent on/off limp which
he could use to great advantage when in search of
sympathy. In spite, or because of his early brush with
the law, Obo was in doggy jail so many times when
Spud lived in Cannon Beach that the cops had
memorized his phone number.
For eleven and a half years and in a variety of
locations, a well broken-in house, plenty of friends, lots
of travel and live music, and a sun soaked deck
overlooking their territory have made Obo, Pepper, and
Spud three of the most idyllically contented bachelors
in Clatsop County. When Spud moved his entourage to
the riverside shack in Astoria, Obo and Pepper were
given a past six year existence of edenic conditions,
with a river to swim in, mudflats to explore, a little-
trafficked neighborhood to roam, and plenty of ducks to
chase.
Obo, a splendid and humorous dog and an early
founder of the Upper Left Edge, has gone now to chase
the birds in the deeper sky. We really miss you, Obo,
goodbye.
Everybody hits, nobody pitches, seems to be
the word in M ajor League Baseball this year. Lord
knows the Cubs are knocking baseballs hither and
yon, but when it takes double d ig it innings to w in a
game one begins to wonder i f maybe the idea o f
raising the pitching mound might be a good one after
all. Yes, I can hear the purists groaning. But
fundamental changes have been made before and the
game has survived. In the battle fo r the basement,
the Cubs are holding their own, but it ’ s early yet.
Go Cubbies!!
P.S. Thanks to all o f you Cub fans who have sent us
stuff, like the pennant, the license plate, the stickers,
the refrigerator magnets, the articles from the T nb;
but we are still waiting for those World Senes
“ Technology today is the cam pfire around
which we te ll our stories.”
- Laurie
Anderson
Look around you, see where you are. Poised on
a wave o f information that will, when it crests,
wash away the world as we know it. A world
numbed by complexity. A world hungry for
understanding, for community, fo r purpose. A
world on the brink o f spectacular unpleasantness, a
world th a t must save itself but doesn’t know how,
a world waiting to be illuminated and transformed.
We have lost our sense o f place and with it our
sense o f self. Our world is spinning too fast,
careening out o f balance. The circle is broken, the
center is gone. To the blind all things are sudden.
We are frightened, unsure and running out o f time.
We know only one thing: to remember what it
means to be human, we must connect to
something larger than ourselves. We must engage
a new reality; a sphere o f awareness whose center
is everywhere and whose surface is anyplace we
look.
That, in a nutshell, is where we are.
Strangers in a strange land. Nice to see you.
Welcome to the neighborhood.
You possess, or are about to, unlimited
capabilities in a world where unlimited capabilities
will need to be as close as a laptop. Information is
energy and true power is potential. You have your
finger in the wall socket o f the wellspring of
creation, you are a dance master choreographing
the ballet of m atter and light, bending the rules of
space/tim e, shaping virtual reality.
Be here now. Be there too.
Be anywhere, anywhen.
Virtual space in real time evoked by the click of
a mouse. Who can know what this will mean?
There is no aspect o f the world, broad bandwidth
will not touch - no reality it will not alter,
irrevocably and forever. Your mission, in simplest
terms, is to transform what is, into what might be
and what might be into what is. We hope you
brought a lunch.
“ Tell me, and I will fo rg e t.
Show me,
and I may not remember.
Involve me, and I
will understand.” - Native American
Proverb
Who are you? You will be, once again, what
you dream and what you do. Every dream begins
with a whisper: what if? You must ta tto o these
words on the inside o f your corporate eyelids. You
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are not here to control the future but to facilitate
it, to fulfill it, to allow it to unfold with seamless
beauty and grace. You are not gatekeepers, you
are wilderness guides. The universe is not a
symphony, it ’s a billion, billion jazz scores waiting
to be played. Listen closely to the music.
Business is not a noun, it ’s a verb. A
process, a set of relationships, a role greater that
the sum o f its beans. The first and greatest
challenge o f the new millennium is to humanize the
corporation; to introduce it to its new paradigm.
Here is the context, here are the needs of our
brave new marketplace: community, environment,
ethics and understanding. Our clients are human
beings who want to know more, do more and be
more. They may not know how to ask. We must
listen closely to their dreams. Our client is
humanity; we must do more than serve it, we must
inspire it.
We are witnessing the last gasp of the
greed mongers, the final feeding frenzy of those so
frightened by the future, they believe too much can
never be enough. An old Persian story tells of a
traveler who comes to the end of the universe and
finds a monster devouring it as fast as it can.
When the traveler ask why it would do such a thing,
the monster replies; because one day it will all be
gone. If we align ourselves with this vision of the
future we are already part of the past. We must
decide from the beginning that such behavior is
beneath us.
“ To gain knowledge, add something every
day. To gain wisdom, get rid o f something
every day."
- Lao Tzu
We are a corporate being, a collective
citizen o f a universe as small as it is virtual. We will
make our concerns larger than ourselves. We will
be obsessed with possibilities and redefine our
notions o f profit. We will do nothing that does not
exalt human potential. We will do nothing we
cannot be proud of.
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