I meant to launch a sabbatical blog weeks ago, but as I started
clicking, the first requirement was a title. I was dumbfounded. Titles usually come at the end of a process
not the beginning. How could I name
something I didn’t understand yet? I imagine using it beyond this sabbatical,
and I struggled like my students typically do looking for something brief and apt. After a few weeks of pondering (one luxury of
sabbatical) Steven Johnson’s Where Good
Ideas Come From offered ‘the
adjacent possible’ which he, crediting scientist Stuart Hoffman, describes as:
A kind of shadow
future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the
ways in which the present can reinvent itself (31).
Having always appreciated the possibilities of margins, edges, and
boundaries, I start this space in the spirit of sabbatical reflection and
reinvention. While a blog suggests
monologue, I’d love some dialogue. Please. I’ll
record sabbatical experiences to share w/in and beyond the SPA community. I hope they might suggest topics for discussion here and elsewhere. Thanks
for visiting.
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