Infinite Field of Possibilities

Hi everyone,

I am reading, well actually listening to, the trilogy of which you may have seen the movie The Golden Compass. The hero is a little girl who has a fantastic ability to attract friends and together they become involved in the struggle between THE CHURCH (the bad guys) and her father (not so sure he is a good guy) who is trying to do away with religion once and for all and on all worlds.

Its this last that I am musing on today - that there are multiple universes - each which split off as we make a decision. This makes sense to me as I see that as long as we play in the world of 'what if' - we have infinite possibilities for our lives, but as soon as we pin ourselves down to a course of action the rest of the actions that we did not choose disappear somewhere. Occasionally we may get them back, but they won't be the same as if we took those actions in the first place.

OK - so now, at this moment I am seeing a world of infinite possibilities and I love thinking about: new websites, associations of my friends setting up shop to enhance multicultural ideas, mentoring doctoral students and playing with people who are at the leading edge of ideas about how education is changing. Yet I also feel tension - that as some of these ideas play out the field of possibility lessons - and as they become successful the likelihood of becoming stuck in them they way they are - where we work to keep them moving takes over. Plop, zip, gone are any pretense of infinite and we just fight to hold on to possibilities.

As I pursue some of these new ideas my goal, or idea is to stay close to the power of new ideas - to not let the day to day destroy that energy. AND/Both rather than EITHER one OR the other.

Looking forward to any comments you might have,
Alana