Today let’s share how life for me was different. How being labeled an “outcast” strictly from society and a human interaction perspective rather than literal terms where the term may harm someone.
Follow along as we explore concepts of why pebble and ripples hold more value whereby being lost can completely obscure histories and our own personal stories.
Pebbles and ripples were always with me, they became for me the concept I hold of teaching with pebbles. I will not dive down the road of contrasting my story with how society has determined best teaching methods today.
Everything today has become far more methodical and clinical as compared to relationships to our own humanity whereby I sum up the human condition root as bound to humanity and interconnection and today humanity and interconnectivity has given way to methodical and clinical. Concluding in focus of being self, rather than the collective whole.
Teaching with a pebble is illustrated visually in the image below. An image I had AI create for me as I’m not an artist. I can see the effects of the image, I can verbalize it, but absolutely could not create it.
This only misses verbal details of this principle. I teach as in inviting you to see something different or to gain clarity of something. Some who receives the ripple from the pebble being dropped will quickly add their pebble that adds their interpretation of what was dropped, some will much later come back to add their pebble and still others will only feel the ripple choosing to not drop a pebble.
Ripples grow as they cross giving people new information from a new perspective. This creates change and direction for common good.
For me the method comes from an Asian marital arts instructor. The true meaning of being a master in the marital arts is not they know everything. It is that point in teaching and training your Sensei says, “I taught you everything I can, now show me what you can teach yourself.” A profound difference of the way many see it today.
This image describes how I see things. Think of you making a choice to move from one place to another. Many see only their moving and adjusting to their new place. I have always seen the ripples. Changes and adjustments neighbors make both where you left and where you arrived. You are removing a rock they have adjusted to while dropping your own pebble at your destination. Ripples occur both times. When rocks disappear they leave ripples when pebbles are dropped they also leave ripples. And this is how I see everything in life.
My sight of this is natural, normal even. I know no other way. Hence I cannot explain where it came from to myself so please don’t ask me to explain to you. Consider it a pebble you must see the ripple for yourself.
I have encountered this in every step of life. From moving myself both as a child and adult to researching history on Deerbrook, Langlade County, Wisconsin for 15+ years. This work has proven to me time and time again we are all connected, that ripples are everywhere and in fact ripples being lost can leave historical accounts close to if not completely impossible to solve. Deerbrook has both validated for me the way I see things in ripples past and present connect us; but also if ripples are never felt and passed on it creates voids in building historical accounts. Deerbrook’s story will be revealed in time when I drop more pebbles.
I have also always believed teaching, learning even people’s interaction has to be inviting, non-judgmental and shared in a way to gain full understanding of the common rather than differences. Thinking this way we quickly find we agree on common good subjects and differ primarily on those things we do impacting no one but ourselves.
I purposely stop here today, un-ended so readers can fully experience the concept of teaching with a pebble. The pebble is dropped the time is now to feel the ripple, digest, reflect and then continue this story together.