So, our “sit” changed this week and it feels like a good thing!
Instead of visualizing our future, we were instructed to go to the past by deconstructing something. A battleship was suggested but after the first sit, I realized that a battleship might be too robust of an object to deconstruct for me at this time so instead, I chose a chicken sandwich since I was eating one at the time.
So, I traced the box of chicken back to BJs where we bought it. Then I followed the plastic bag that the chicken sandwiches were in back to the factory where they were manufactured.
Then I took that further back to the folks that bought the materials to make a plastic bag and took that back further to the petroleum that was used to create the bag.
And then took that back further to the folks that determined where to place the oil wells and ended up taking it back to the thought.
The box that the plastic bag was in, I took back to a different factory then the cardboard was followed to a forest, the forest was traced back to a tree farm, back to a seed and thus back to a thought.
I even traced the graphics on the book back to an industrial printer, back to a graphic designer, back to a thought.
The chicken was traced back to a meat processing plant in the midwest, then back to the farmer that brought the chickens to the processing plant, back to the eggs and if we have a little fun with it, you can get stuck in a bit of a loop. You know, the whole, which came first the chicken or the egg? But if you leave it at the egg, it can go back to the Farmers thought.
I have to say, it was kind of fun!
Loved this Todd when you shared with our tribe and even reading it once again.
The exercise was fun and you helped creating some of that fun when you proposed to look at the sandwich.
Great thought process to observe and practice the “sit” with your chicken sandwich vs battleship!
Thank you for sharing how the simple exercise of “battleship” can be applied to anything that we choose!
I love the “chicken or the egg?”
I enjoyed reading your blog Todd. I liked how you switched the chicken sandwich to visualize for your sit instead of the battleship. I liked how you were able to visualize the deconstruction of the plastic bag, cardboard box, and chicken connected to your chicken sandwich. When you mentioned this visualization in your Marco Polo video, it made me realize I could visualize something else to deconstruct instead of the battleship. I visualized a Cowichan sweater since it was relatable.
Thanks so much for your insightful, fun blog.