Boat-Building By Linda Stowe
Consider the canon of boatbuilding. When the first humans left their Africa homeland in search of more food or nicer neighbors, how did they get from there to here? Presumably they walked as far as they could but eventually, they would encounter water. What then? The water was deep and powerful, and they had to worry about holding onto things they had brought with them, lest they be swept away in the chaos of the waves. The explorers probably already knew how to build a raft or even a canoe to forge the rivers they had left behind. So, they understood the principles of transporting across water. They just had to use this knowledge as well as the material and the tools at hand to build the next generation of watercraft.
That’s how a body of knowledge is created. Start with what you have and keep pushing the envelope and then pass what you have learned on to the next generation. This provides a strong foundation of core principles upon which to build a body of work that will adapt and expand to meet what comes.
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Polly here. This was thought-provoking. I especially love the last paragraph about building on what we know until it grows into something else. That is life, isn’t it? All of it? Our entire process. We experience. We learn. And then we grow.
That is, if we are willing to grow.
Boat-Building By Linda Stowe
