Subject: Re: Mining for the Gold From: bstuhlmu.infoscan@medimedia.com Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 11:12:40 -0400

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There's a strange and young reaction I notice at work when I'm around new
"authorities". it shows up as an internal monologue. It starts like "Well
just because you say so doesn't mean it's so. I'll let you say what you're
going to say then I'll decide for myself!" Then I sit in judgment of each
and every utterance, jumping on words like the next great clue to prove how
stupid, or uninformed or just out-of-it that person is. I found myself in
one of these last week and got curious as to how I would speak it
(covertly, of course).

It came out in questions: "Well do you really think........? What evidence
do you have to corroborate.................? Can you document.....?

As I waded in the dialogue and began to own it as my dialogue, I saw that
the exchange was giving me my future. Not whether her opinion or my opinion
won out but the exchange itself. In other words either opinion or both
opinions, or some trail of interactions that would follow in a much larger
community and much larger network of conversations. These were the futures
opening up for me right in that moment. They were futures that were locked
into place, already to unfold in the dance that was already choreographed.

What a strange moment to be present to. It's never quite occurred like that
before.

So this conversation gets to interact with others in a dialogue that
creates a future. As it's being spoken, Right now. Our questions (What
language are you speaking, etc. have finally taken on a personal flavor. I
see them right here, right now. A choice in each moment.

What language will I speak? Listening
To who will I speak it? Who ever is speaking?
For what do I speak: My moment to moment participation in creating a future
we want as distinct from just letting it happen as a mysterious process.



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