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About the Creation of Abundant Space
(Host Leadership Practices, Explored)
So it must be that I sit down today and make space for a piece about making space, which is the third deverbal noun out of the six that the framework of Host Leadership entails, and since I have been writing about two of them already, it seems that I must go on and proceed.
I am promising myself to not get lost on the way this time. I have made space for abundant space to unfold without taking any. Usually when I write I start with vigor and belief and hope and a target brightly lit and set in stone right in front of me. Then I begin and the first few sentences roll out of my fingertips like drops previously held by the adhesive power of a leathery leaf before the sunlight strikes: only waiting for my passage, swift and reposeful, yet obtrusive, for I seem to create enough motion in the ether to cause the leaves to let go and the drops to start their journey downward into the soil.
But then when the droplets are granted access to the space through which to travel into their next phase of transition-caught-in-time, I am inclined to make the mistake to try and catch them and I start fumbling and I say no not like this and not that way and I loose myself in the text I am writing, high-strung on a persistent urge to be righting and righting again and writing becomes a…
