Keep the machines. Change what they make.

I read a post titled "Pivots for Change" by Seth Godin about adaptive industry and thought about its perspective for the change agent.

Maybe we need a new way of re-imagining the world around us. Make it less about just dreaming dreams, more about deconstructing and redirecting our environments. Changing concepts not just conceptualizing change.

Moving ideas into creation.

Dreams into waking life.

Iʻve heard this said about dreams, "the amount of effort you put into attaining your dreams is a direct result of your belief, courage and passion thereof."

Maybe we have too many dreams too little initiative.

Dreams are good, we need those. We need the imaginary. I live in those spaces. But even more so, we live in a world that desperately needs the incarnation of the invisible creative.

My 5 year old has a saying, "take some stuff and make different stuff". He chants this phrase as he gathers and recreates with objects like soccer balls and bananas and straws. He takes what is around him, reconfigures use, redesignates purpose and gives way to a new creation.

For me this need to "take some stuff and make different stuff" is no more evident than a drive by any one of our vacant box spaces. Cemeteries of retail, memorials of something gone terribly wrong.

Could we redeem these spaces? Recover them for hope or beauty or compassion? They are already here.

In a build more, make more world we need the quiet story of redemption to interrupt the noise. More dreamers to come to earth not simply casting creative concepts into the cities and streets but sculpting as well.

More people taking what is around them and recovering good.

More redeemers.