Sharing Is Sometimes More Demanding Than Giving.

Rarely Is It Possible To Study All Of The Instructions To A Game Before Beginning To Play, Or To Memorize The Manual Before Turning On The Computer. The Excitement Of Improvisation Lies Not Only In The Risk Of Being Involved But In The New Ideas, As Heady As The Adrenaline Of Performance, That Seems To Come From Nowhere.

Improvisation And New Learning Are Not Private Processes; They Are Shared With Others At Every Age. We Are Called To Join In A Dance Whose Steps Must Be Learned Along The Way, So It Is Important To Attend And Respond. Even In Uncertainty, We Are Responsible For Our Steps.

Sharing Is Sometimes More Demanding Than Giving.

Learning To Savor The Vertigo Of Doing Without Answers Or Making Do With Fragmentary Ones Opens Up The Pleasures Of Recognizing And Playing With Patterns, Finding Coherence Within Complexity, Sharing Within Multiplicity.

A Glad Welcome To This Affirmation By A Group Of Psychologists That The Self Does Not Stop At The Skin Nor Even With The Circle Of Human Relationships But Is Interwoven With The Lives Of Trees And Animals And Soil; That Caring For The Deepest Needs Of Persons And Caring For Our Threatened Planet Are Not In Conflict.