Maha Sivaratri. 95% or more emptiness and darkness in this universe. Is this Siva? Is this Naaraayana? Nothingness is all pervading. From this nothingness, everything else comes. Towards truth, light and amrt. Well-being to dissolution. Siva and Sakthi coming together. Arthanareeshwara. Sounds of Damaruka. Taandava Dance. Joyous universe. Fasting, upavaas; Jaagaran. To peaks. New creations.
Women’s Day. Nurturer, Sakthi. Miracle worker. Higher life span; stamina; emotional resilience, intelligence; governance and leadership acumen. Feminine in all life, alife, and non-life. Can we be gender inclusive? Can we include at decision and leadership levels? Can we consciously cultivate women leaders for future leadership? Can we make the workplace safe and demonstrate zero-tolerance for harassment? Can we also boost women in STEM – Science, Technology and Mathematics fields? Can we see remunerative employment-enterprise opportunities for more women, and women in teams? With skills, tools, equipment et al. Can we bring in safety and security in gig work? How do we professionalize gig work? Not looking as a step down. How do we make it entrepreneurial? How do we break or tailor the ‘gender norms’ and ‘spaces’? Maybe as individuals, families, and as self-help groups? Is there a higher cost of converting a woman into a gig worker – entrepreneur? Can this be worked upon? Can we have access to risk taking funds/grants; maybe philanthropic?
Sudha Murthy is nominated to Rajya Sabha.
Do we need a support organization/entity to work with people’s collectives? Can the collective itself go the whole hog? Can the community members put in the equity, share capital, small portion (less than one percent, say) of their returns, and turnovers? If they trust, if they want to own/co-own the collective. If they believe in the vision, commitment and possibilities. If they do so, agency happens. Abilities go up. Willingness goes up. Room for space is made. The members start having assets/more assets. Voice. Choices. Work at home, work from home; work-learning-conversation centres; combinations. Managers, and leaders from within. Creators, designers, and planners from within. Open to learn and spirit to live. Co-existential living. Can we do this?
Can we go the N way? N movement way. Of living, farming and governance. Local. Decentralized. Self-help. Self-reliance. Self-rule. With abilities, willingness and spaces. With Agency. On our bodies, diets, plates, families, learnings, homes, farms, groups, teams, villages, organizations, collectives, markets and governments on ground and otherwise. Can we grow in? To engage and be engaged, inspire and be inspired. Try, experiment, learn, adapt, and share. Collective and idiosyncratic intelligence and choices. Willingly. Customize, collectivise, enterprise. Change our behaviours, our systems. Subtle triggers. Market, Health, and Nutrition. Climate change and resilience. Metalearning, metalearning-continuums. For these, do we need incentives, and how long? Why do we remain addicted? Why do we remain irrational? How do we infuse a new ‘intoxication’ of unlearning and behaviour change? Culture. Song, dance, and play. Literature, and story. Consciousness. Subtle Art. Coexisting artists.
Can we go N way? Life, living, livelihoods, linkages, leading, learning, love. Farming, consumption, nutrition. Governance, on ground and off ground. More democracy. More democratic forums, platforms. Rights, entitlements. Can we meet, converse with N people? Can we work with N cohorts? Can we partner with and mentor N systems, projects, entities, influencers? Can we coexist with N lifeworkers? Can we be with N?
Yes, we can. N is the way. There is no more time. We need to slip in. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the yoga of cleansing in nature – saagaramathanayoga for 7L.
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