Ecosystem Notes #12 - Bulbs
Social Leadership Daily - Day #834
Everywhere I look, the bulbs are pushing up: crocus, snowdrops, daffodils, some already in flower, others swathing the leafmould with a verdant promise.
It feels early: the frosts can still be heavy through February, but clearly the song has been sung, and the light calls.
I love these winter days when the sun breaks through, and the carpet of the forest comes alive, whilst the canopy is still bare. It’s the first flush of life in the new year and, whilst delicate, it’s welcome.
A reminder that even in the midwinter gloom, beneath the ground the bulbs are waking up, and that the life of the forest is circular.
This work explores the organisation as an ecosystem: it’s part of a broader body of work considering the way that our ‘places’ have proliferated, from simply physical, to the narrative, and asks questions of how we ‘know’ these systems. Provisionally, my plan is to work on the ‘Ecosystems’ book throughout this year, alongside a new Social Leadership book, which weaves around the same themes. The vocabulary I develop here will inform that writing.