Today's Words to Ponder are from Taiye Selasi's wonderful Ted Talk, "Don't Ask Where I'm From. Ask Where I'm Local."
"All Identity is local.
All identity is experience.
Our experience is where we're from."
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The garden metaphor is pervasive as a picture of human development. Children grow, it is said, from seeds. With the right kind of nurturing, they will ”flower” and “bloom.” Think kindergarten.
I like the metaphor for how it evokes a unified process—the person-environment interface, rather than person on the one hand...
