Post From Light of Love-LA

I recently contributed to the fantastic new organization Light of Love-LA.  Right now it is mostly an online spiritual community but is growing quickly.  It is a place for people to get a dose of spirituality when we need it or want to just relate to another through communion.  I am just posting an exert but you can read the entire article here on Light of Love-LA.

Believing in an unknown infinite power is frightening, so there needs to be something to comfort that fear.  Through my conversations and observations in the past five years, I have seen the growing need for human connection.  With the technological revolution, we have become more involved and informed in each other’s lives but we are still missing that face to face connection.  With the global interface of correspondence that we have access to, we have an obligation to strengthen those relationships not only in our physical address communities, but in all the communities that we find ourselves involved in.  We will never know what this greater force is that conducts us, but we do have one another whom have the same needs to answer the great questions like why are we here? How did we get here?  What is the meaning of life?  Is organic truly organic? We have one another and therefore we need to find communion with one another in any way we can.  Communion can be church, over a beer, a campfire, a walk, over coffee, on a boat or in the car on a trip. While communing, any topics of discussion can be incorporated; Love, faith, politics, fashion, sex, food, family, the sky color, music, power tools, hunting.  It is completely about being with another person and enjoying that unknown beast that connects all of us.  Despite our lack of understanding of an infinite power, I believe we need to be globally responsible for one another.  This can only be done through human connection.

A Years End And A Final Request

For the last month, I am completely locked in on staying in the state of Wisconsin.  I would like to reach my hands out into the world of technology and hear from as many people as possible in this last month.  How you ask?  With an email, a video, or just a simple facebook or twitter message. 

The largest part of my wanting to create Project Kinect was to explore connecting in this technological age.  In this, how do we still fulfill that human connection that we need when we aren’t necessarily physically face to face.  Through the exploration of connecting, are we really getting to know each other?  Over the last year, I have gotten the chance to see some really extraordinary ways we are connecting.  One of my favorites was in Austin with the Skype play, “You Don’t Know Her, She Lives in London: You Don’t Know Him, He Lives in Austin”, produced by the Hidden Room Theatre.  This play used Skype to share the experience of two characters in two different apartments in two opposite parts of the world. 

In this last month, I want to hear from you.  With the help of technology, I would like to get as many people as possible to connect in one forum.  I ask that each person that this post comes across takes a look at the questions and in a response to me via email (gregg@projectkinect.com), facebook, twitter, or a video , answers as many of the questions as they would like.  In the response, please tell me your name, age, where you’re from, what you do, and any other information you would like to share about yourself.  Please also add whether you would mind me sharing the basics of your input with the followers of Project Kinect.  I look forward to hearing and reading all about the lives and stories of everyone.

I do have one last request.  After you are done reading this post, whether or not you respond to it, please share it with your communities so that for this last month, I can truly hear from the largest group of people possible. 

Thank you for your involvement to an extraordinary year!

Sincerely,

Gregg Potter

How do you define community?

Where does your inspiration come from?

How much time do you give selflessly?

What great accomplishments have any of the communities that you’re involved with completed?

What have you been a part of in your life that absolutely amazes you?

What is something about yourself that you have always wanted to share but haven’t?

If you have hesitated from doing what you want, did fear or money scare you most?

When have you been motivated to get involved with politics?

What is the last great face to face conversation that you have had?

What was the last big risk you took?

 

On the Plane with Sonia

On my flight from Milwaukee to Los Angeles for this extremely quick weekend, I met Sonia.  Knowing that I would be running from the minute I got off of the plane, I figured I was going to just rest and have a moment of shut eye on my flight.  Well, I was pleasantly surprised to not have the opportunity.  Sonia is from Southern California and while she loves living in Southern California, she has become ill over what the California state government has done for the state.  Like many, she is becoming fed up due to the lack of integrity and responsibility that the government has had with their constituents and just basic knowledge between what is right and what is wrong.

            This irritation has inspired Sonia to diligently research our true American history and see if that information can help her while she makes future decisions in her life, carries on conversations with others and I’m guessing maybe in her voting routine.  Sonia really inspired me because she is taking her part in our democracy into her own hands.  She isn’t letting one strain of media influence her and she isn’t taking the first thing she hears as fact.  Sonia is a great example of how we all need to be a part of the decisions that are being made because we voted our representatives in, are affected by the changes made and even more simply, are residents in this country.  

            This conversation led us to discussing today’s youth and whether they contain the common sense as well as the ability to tell the difference between right and wrong. The way that Sonia feels she contributes to this group of young adults is through her job.  She works as a District Manager for a large department store chain and gets to take recently graduated college students and help them in the skills that will make them successful at their jobs.  Fortunately these skills such as interpersonal, leadership and communication skills are essential in a successfully running society.  If they happened to miss that part of their education in college, Sonia is certain to pass on those tools to them once working for her.  That, Sonia told me, is her favorite part of her job.

            I love flying and this is the reason why.  I was seated next to someone that I may have never talked to, with some opinions that maybe aren’t similar to me, and we found the common ground and the enjoyment of life.  I not only got to learn about her political views and her career, but I was able to learn about her daughter who she is so blessed to have, and her husband who she met after life moments of high pressure that helped her to be ready when they met. 

            Sonia, thank you for an amazing plane ride.  It was such a pleasure meeting you and I look forward to hearing from you again in the future.  And thank you for educating me on the true ride of Paul Revere.  Do you all know that Wentworth Cheswell was the African American that was just as influential in the mid-night ride as Paul Revere? Cheswell rode north as Paul Revere rode west, where the British eventually went, causing Cheswell to be unknown for his accomplishments in the midnight ride.