{"id":2884,"date":"2021-03-14T17:05:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2021-03-14T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:05:05","slug":"reflections-that-are-subject2change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"Reflections that are Subject2Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent about four hours today rigorously cleaning my house. <\/span><\/p>\n

I swept, dusted, vacuumed, and even mopped. I delved into crevices that I haven\u2019t cleaned for a half dozen years. Under our desk and behind the bookcase that holds our cookbooks were both moments of revelation. I discovered that dust bunnies don\u2019t only breed, they hide until the vacuum is put away\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

So what does this have do with our growing Youtube site, Subject2Change – Sustainability<\/a>? <\/span><\/p>\n

My cleaning frenzy was triggered by need, the \u201cspring ahead\u201d frustrations, and some avoidance. Avoidance not because I don\u2019t want to delve into editing our wonderful conversation with Reif Larsen, founder of The Future of Small Cities Institute and the imminent Sustainable Futures Conference<\/a>, but because I wanted a little time to rest in the joy of the conversation we had two weeks ago with Jade Warrick, artist, placemaker, advocate, and educator. <\/span><\/p>\n

You see, every single week brings revelations. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not only in the conversations, but in the work I am doing to edit those conversations into shareable YouTube posts. I learn more each week about timing, and putting in titles, and what makes a good story arc. This week I also learned to separate audio and trim that out differently, because Jade\u2019s mic was about half a second off the video image. I was initially frustrated, but once I learned how to make that particular audio edit, I was then easily able to overlay the audio of our discussion onto images of Jade\u2019s engaging, fun, and informing art. A challenge became an opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So I say \u201cresist perfection\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You see, it is is process. I know I will want to go back to the start, and tweak videos Lauren and I posted months ago, but I will resist<\/strong>. I will resist<\/strong> because time is precious, but also because the evolution, the cyclic learning and improving, is all part of our message that should be illustrated by our videos. If we want to improve our conversation with Diane, or Jim, or any of our earliest contributors (and great thanks to each of them) we will invite them for another conversation, because I bet not only will my video editing be improving, but their stories of sustainability, impact, and what matters now will be changing over time as well. <\/span><\/p>\n

We are each Subject2Change, after all. And if we are not, then we are missing one of the most powerful messages of sustainability. It is a process, <\/b>and we are enriched by embracing that process, even when it is messy, or teaches us something we don\u2019t particularly want to learn at that moment. <\/span><\/p>\n