The great “It” is So.

“So” was writ on the note in Odin's mailbox this morning . . .

A thing may be so “because” of a thousand and one reasons of greater or lesser importance… The separate reasons, no matter how valid, are only fragmentary parts of the picture. And the whole necessarily includes all that it impinges on as object and subject, in ripples fading with distance or depending upon the original intensity of the vortex. – John Steinbeck

Admitting mistakes — brought to government officials’ attention by the activists and social media of a fledging civil society — and fixing them, rather than denying or covering them up, is what can sustain legitimacy in an age when everyone knows what’s what anyway through connectivity with everyone else. – Nathan Gardels

If history is anything to go by, a few hundred years from now, our descendants will find at least one part of contemporary morality almost unintelligible – ‘How could decent people ever have believed that?’ If they are not to condemn us as evil, they might well have to conclude that we were stupid. – Sacha Golob

Mathematician and philosopher Grete Hermann (1901-1984) posited that in a quantum universe the notion of absolute truth must be abandoned in favour of a fragmented view – one in which the way we measure the world affects the slice of it that we can see. She referred to this idea as the ‘splitting of truth’, and believed it extended far beyond the laboratory walls and into everyday life. Contemporary quantum physics is just now catching up with Dr. Hermann.

Becoming new is never safe. Survival is never safe. It is always a breach. A break in the skin. It is a leap across the abyss. It is the moment you leap into another body. What if we did not see disability as lack, but instead saw it as an invitation for collaboration — an invitation to reinvent our survival? Evolutionary science has revealed that resilient ecosystems and species emerge from places of physical overlap. In a culture that is fraught with collapse, we must shed our individualistic skin and recognize the health and resilience of a future born from symbiotic collaboration. We must risk new shapes. – Sophie Strand