Kathie--
As part of your note on resistence you wrote:
one of his necessary characteristics for a mindful system (a complex
system exhibiting learning/life behaviors) is that components of the
system respond to changes within the system using energy from outside the
system.
----I jumped at this statement because it appears to be a very general process involved in human development from the embryonic period onward. Differentiation within the zygote does not begin until cells have multiplied to the point where they are roughly the size of normal body cells, at which point the zygote begins to exchange materials with the mother and cells begin to differentiate.
The same principle seems to be at work in the growth (or none continued life) of the afterschool activities we design and implement. Thanks for linking the resistence discussion to the issue of sustainability for me! mike
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