To Live Another Way

At first, it appears that it is the parts of the system that must be made better or fixed.

Then, it becomes clear that the system is not in the parts – it is in the relationships between them.

So, it seems like it is the relationships that need to be made better or fixed.

But relationships, it turns out are made of communication.

And then –
The communication becomes the place to address the needed adaptations,

And then –
You realize what is communicated is now what is expressed or even what is not expressed – it is what it is possible to express.

That is where the limits move, in the combining.

How shall I tend to the premises of what is possible to communicate?

Nora Bateson, Combining