Andrew

What is a ritual, practice, or routine in your life that is important for your psychological wellbeing and/or fulfillment? Why?

Peter

Running.

Running meets me wherever I am. It can at once ground me when I notice my insides swirling and propel me forward when I feel stuck.

In this way, running offers both space and scaffolding – two ingredients I find myself needing for the invention and reinvention I feel moved to do and help enable.

I cherish the process of discovering the information an early voice or set of voices is attempting to share.

Andrew

What is a human-made creation that brings out the best in you? Why?

Peter

I continue to be inspired by how many – let's call them – "forces" Wikipedia enables to exist together. 

Wikipedia aspires to serve humanity across time all the while appreciating and respecting the individual people in the present moment who volunteer attention to its creation and maintenance.

Wikipedia sets clear boundaries and at the same time invites people to challenge them in service of advancing the project's mission.

Wikipedia can present as both fixed and in perpetual motion, depending on where/how you are looking at.

Wikipedia is often experienced through a digital medium and yet that experience can feel embodied, like taking a walk in the forest.

Wikipedia reminds me what living systems are like.

Each day, I seem to encounter new reasons to appreciate relationships (of all sorts and timescales!) grounded in openness, awareness, respect, and a mutual choosing to participate.

Andrew

When do you cherish the slow or hard way of doing something? Why?

Peter

I cherish the process of discovering the information an early voice or set of voices is attempting to share.

In this moment, I'm thinking about this process in the context of creating space to hear voices within yourself...the voices that, in the beginning, might sound more like murmurs and less like the chorus they can evolve into.

I am finding that the presence, patience, openness, and discipline required to exist within "soundscapes" of this sort are the same capacities required to develop solutions to the blocks I want to continue helping to shift.

While converging on meaning immediately might offer relief, it's proven so far, to me, to be ephemeral.

Andrew

What is something you appreciate or long for from the past? Why?

Peter

Each day, I seem to encounter new reasons to appreciate relationships (of all sorts and timescales!) grounded in openness, awareness, respect, and a mutual choosing to participate.

This feels notable to me as I sense a shift towards more transactional interactions. 

I quite like what Byung-Chul Han says about all of this, "A real feeling of freedom occurs only in a fruitful relationship."