Membership

In Hawaii, fishponds are built upon the shores. Enclosures with gated openings face the open sea. The rhythmic tidal action naturally infuses the calmed waters and bring the culture and the fauna. Openings to the sea can be gated and filtered, letting in or letting go. The vast ocean nourishes a tiny ecosystem. The pond does not search, explore, browse or possess the ocean. It makes one through proximity and openness. A unique niche can be tended and harvested within the enclosure. The purity and fertility of the medium is dependent on the freshness and clarity of what flows down from the heights, the precipitation of the past. The boundary to the ocean needs constant attention and maintenance. The opening to the source has to be kept intact and integral. If the boundary to the sea breaks or subsides then the pond becomes the sea.

Within the enclosure plants, hatchlings, juveniles and diminutive life can be raised away from the predation of the wide world. Once grown and robust, the life is attracted to the surge of the tide when the gates are opened. Crowding back to the source through the narrows of the sluice, they are easily sorted, tended and harvested.

Say yes. We all share. Respect, empower, include. Openness and inclusion are the basis of compassionate action. Simply creating a connection to the whole creates a being. That connection can be gated and tracked and have output modified according to the condition of the relationship to the whole. If the input to the being is open source, an organic process, then the output and feedback can be just as open. Arising are multiple expressions from a single source, in coordination.