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“Our signals from the past are very weak, and our means for recovering their meaning still are most
imperfect...The beginnings are much hazier than the endings, where at least the catastrophic action of
external events can be determined...Now and in the past, most of the time, the majority of people live
by borrowed ideas and upon traditional accumulations, yet at every moment the fabric is being
undone and a new one woven to replace the old, while from time to time, the whole pattern shakes
and quivers, settling into new shapes and figures. The processes of change are all mysterious
uncharted regions where the traveler soon loses direction and stumbles in darkness.”
George Kubler, The Shape of Time
Yale University Press, 1963
Aftershock Notes:
In my decades of experience working with large hive-‐like groups of women on leadership
development, I have often needed to stand tall in my own authority, as the queen of my own hard-‐
earned authority, while a fine younger woman leader and sometimes a group of less experienced
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