The Mystery of Product
The chilly weather streak we are in, to borrow a military proverb, reminds us that we go into the winter with the spring, summer and fall we had, not the ones we wish we had. The transitional weather becomes an incredible time to reflect on what we have produced in our year. This season also leads right to the holidays, when more than any other time we gather with the families whom in certain ways we are "products" of. Consider, then, please doing a "thought experiment": Imagine standing in a position where on one side of you is your experience the product economy. On the other side of you is any awareness that you may have of you, yourself, being a product of something, someplace, someone... You stand in between these two things. Something happens in that zone. It is an outward-meets-inward place of awareness. Relating to the product economy, we genuinely value the thought that we may have dliigently produced this year. (It can't hurt that the cold is set...