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“Presencing constitutes a third type of seeing, beyond seeing external reality and beyond seeing from within the living whole. It is seeing from within the source from which the future whole is emerging, peering back at the present from the future. In these moments, we can feel linked to our highest future possibility and destiny.”

From Presence by Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers.

6:30 am, Wainscott, NY. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Miles of empty beach stretched out in both directions. The tide was just past its highest point. Four to six foot waves were breaking at once gently and with fury about 50 yards off the shore. I walked along the beach searching for the optimal point at which to enter the ocean. The perfection of nature was more than my eyes could take in, and yet they did. The sun was just beginning to show its warmth. I always approach these early morning sojourns with the hope of just one wave to remember.

I wait with no waiting from a future though I never quite know what form it will take. My highest future possibility and destiny may be about to emerge from within me. But then again they might not. It is all there and then again hidden from view. Hidden by the me that is not yet ready to surrender to that destiny.

We believe because we are told so that there is no destiny, no path that we were meant to pursue. Just a linear progression of limited possibilities. But it is there, waiting at our finger tips, underneath our eye lids, behind the wave that we hesitate to take. That path that contains all purpose and possibility. The path the world needs us to take, that will set us free, that makes no sense with in the reality that dominates most of our lives.

So today is World Water Day . The Japanese researcher Dr. Masaru Emoto, chief of the Hado institute in Tokyo was in Burlington, Vermont on May 13th 2006 for the second annual "Wake the Lake" Waterfest. He is the author of many books concerning the phenomenon of ' Hado'. The two ideograms comprising this expression Hado (pronounced hadou to rhyme with shadow) literally mean "wave" and "move". The following definition is how Dr.

Recently, a valued employee and Seventh Generation parted ways. This story is told with thoughts of that employee, and an expectation of learning and growth at our company.

The Cygnet (A Story)

In the rolling hills of a richly forested Northern country lies a pond. Nestled among trees of strength and wisdom, the pond is fed by brooks of pristine water, and its surface is a deep blue.

Good News! The Seventh Generation Team has made it all the way to Great Falls, Montana and from there to a brief thought of civilization named Dupuyer (which Dan Googled and found means 'bison back fat' in French). All of us were active at 4:00AM this morning and now that it is midnight our time, Penny and I are pretty drained. Dan however is ready for a hike.