https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23 Jo and Jae en-us 2020-11-22 17:51:23 UTC 2020-11-24 19:59:32 UTC hello@padlet.com jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950121060 Notices the way small actions/connections create complex systems]]> 2020-11-22 18:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950121060 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950130440 How humans adapt to become the world we strive for.]]> 2020-11-22 18:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950130440 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950132310 2020-11-22 18:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950132310 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950132592 What is our function in this planet?
“A mushroom is a toxin-transformer, a dandelion is a community of healers waiting to spread… What are we as humans, what is our function in the universe?”]]> 2020-11-22 18:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950132592 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950132864 Brown discusses a possible core function of humans to be "love". Do you think this is true? Why? If not, what would it be?]]> 2020-11-22 18:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950132864 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950135242 "Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions" 
-Nick Obolenksy]]> 2020-11-22 18:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950135242 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950137937 -Birds know to flock and migrate through a gut instinct in their bodies
-Cells are the building blocks of civilization
-Oak trees stay resilient through a storm through their intertwined roots]]> 2020-11-22 18:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950137937 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950142943 Do you think humans are capable of achieving such drastic change in becoming less linear and more loving/organic in action, like mushrooms in Brown's example? Or are humans not comparable to such different forms in nature?]]> 2020-11-22 18:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950142943 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950147862 -Originally a way of describing adaptive/relational leadership model found in Octavia Butler's work
-Became plans of action/personal practices/collective organizing tools that create change and rely on the strength of relationships
-Turned into strategies for organizers building movements for justice , using simple interactions to create complex systems
-Currently: a way for humans to practice complexity, future planning, relationship building]]> 2020-11-22 18:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950147862 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950149624 “Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.”
-Octavia Butler]]> 2020-11-22 18:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950149624 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950153147 Think back to Grassroots reading (most protest participants stem from connections through every-day interactions)]]> 2020-11-22 18:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950153147 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950157262 -Facts, guilt, and shame as motivations for creating change are limited in capacity
-Brown argues that to transform society, justice must become one of the most pleasurable experiences to have]]> 2020-11-22 18:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950157262 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950160703 -Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and countless other black people are dead because they are dangerous in some white imaginations
-The idea of the American Dream
-Imaginations gives us borders, superiority, race...]]> 2020-11-22 18:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/950160703 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954716877  “all that you touch you change / all that you change, changes you.”
-Octavia Butler]]> 2020-11-24 03:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954716877 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954741571 Emergence shows that adaptation and evolution depend more upon critical, deep, and authentic connections.]]> 2020-11-24 03:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954741571 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954770575 Do you see humans as part of nature? Do you see humans’ special characteristics that make humans different from the rest of the world?]]> 2020-11-24 03:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954770575 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954772826 Can violence be a way to express the love? Killing or elimination of potential threats is everyday thing in the nature. Through violence, nature protects what it loves. Does aggressive protests lack love?]]> 2020-11-24 03:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/954772826 jkim901 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/957235344 The book is a culmination of the author's thoughts on society in relation to systems. To what extent do you think spending time pondering systems of life is useful to society? Is it even necessary to have to be "useful" to society?]]> 2020-11-24 17:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/957235344 jchung07 https://padlet.com/jkim901/k99yf4k3dlru9m23/wish/957263377 Can we understand and hold a position we previously believed to be wrong?

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Role traditionally held by women in the family or community, often working with a midwife or a doctor in the process.

Have been a doula and birth supporter for several births.

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