Looking for the Cracks

There's a crack in everything, it's where the light gets in (Leonard Cohen)

Image: Unsplash, via Dan Parsons - HT!

Cracks don’t appear until things begin to solidify, and of course, they solidify at different rates and in different places.

While it’s easy to get carried away with the idea that everything is fluid and we should go with the flow, it leaves us with the crowd when we are better off spending time where the cracks are beginning to form.

This thought, which was washing around in my head in the company of many others, came to the fore after a conversation last evening with a group of friends who have been with me as I have started to explore the boundaries of the “Outside The Walls” as a metaphor.

We noted how incomplete our perspectives on what is happening around us are, but nonetheless, having to act on them. Completeness is not available and things are constantly changing. On the one hand, our group is not as diverse as we would like, but it is what we’ve got, and it works as long as we recognise it. We wonder whether the challenges we see are a…