Day #698 - Storms

The movements of the sand

It was stormy this morning: whilst the bay is quite sheltered we can still get some impressive breakers, and the foam was blowing up over the promenade, the wind gusting to around fifty miles an hour. Where the cliffs had fallen in the autumn, the temporary pathway put in place had partly washed away.

It’s always the sand that moves: piling, drifting, shifting. Each morning the tractors head out, brushing and shoving it back into place, and every storm their efforts are reversed.

It reminds me of people within culture: drifting this way and that, sometimes shunted and pushed, sometimes blown by the winds of change, each one unique and also part of a whole.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider your role as a Social Leader: are you the diggers, imposing order, or the waves, washing the beach clean. Or one of the gulls, always aloft above the scene, whatever the weather!

It reminds me of my own work on Imperfect Leadership: we never ‘master’ a system that is driven by story and belief: rather we are in motion with it. Within it, and upon it.

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