I am indebted to Homer Young-Kennedy III and to Marissa Carlisle and
to Anna Taglieri and to Peter Stanford and to Richard Cutttler and to
my daughter Alexandra
Lindsey Platt Doyle
and to Arthur "Art" Pufford and to Tamara "Tammy" Saitowitz and to
Katryn Jehane Price and to Paula Zolezzi and to Elizabeth Russell and
to Christine Mercado and to my brother Brandon David "Bang" Platt and
to Daniel McAlpine and to Victoria Hamilton-Rivers and to Lawrence
Williams and to Father Avram Brown and to Digne Mellor‑Menkowicz
and to Carl Monroe "CMC" Cheney and to
my mother Andee Platt
and to Claudette Crump and to Karen Donovan and to
my son Joshua Nelson
Platt
and to Peter Ashken and to Elize Naudé Greeff and to Michael
Schropp and to my nephew David Asher Platt and to Madeline Groneman
and to Anita Lynn Erhard and to Wernher Krutein and to John Anthony
Wheeler and to Dierdre Beck and to Yeiber Cano and to Jacob Mack and
to Joseph Barker and to George Afremow and to Lance Lowenberg and to
my father Dr Asher Manfred
Platt
and to
my son Christian Laurence
Platt
and to Deborah Bowen and to Austin Pardo and to Gail Manley and to
Nahid Kasra and to Benjamin Patten and to Su Ball and to Joshua
Platzky Miller and to Marielle Adegran Rutherford and to Rachael
Hobernicht and to John Stofan and to Deborah Rosenberg Erhard and to
Kathleen Hamernick and to Brian Catlett and to Rosalie LeCount and to
Harrison Chase Doyle and to Gonneke Spits and to Giovanni "Gio" Llanos
and to Jeff Penick and to Paul Naveau and to Aaron Santos and to
Marley Abel and to Soldier Of Fortune Magazine and to
Verizon Wireless
and to Photo Hausmann who inspired this conversation, and to Fred
Gruber and to Susan Shafer and to Anna Taglieri and to
Charlene Afremow
and to
my daughter Alexandra
Lindsey Platt Doyle
and to John Frederick "JFH" Hammond and to Sam Hammond and to
Jolin Beth Halstead
and to my sister Anthea "Anth" Sarah Platt Haupt and to Katherine
Penick and to the City of
Napa
who contributed material.
Many of the photographs of me in this photo album appear in the same
order, left to right, top to bottom, as they appeared at the end of the
Conversations For
Transformation
website home page. Others which appear in essays rather than on the
home page, don't.
These photographs show my appearance. But, not shown in these
photographs, it's
my speaking
which brings forth
transformation.
Transformationshows upin my mouth and, with my profound gratitude to you for
what you make possible simply by the act of listening,
in your ears
(as
Werner Erhard
may have said).
It's often been noted how
futile
it is to hunt butterflies. Once you've captured them, they've lost the
very quality they had which made you want to own them in the first
place: their freedom.
So it is with these
Conversations For
Transformation.
By writing them down I've taken them out of the domain of
transformation
ie out of the domain of the spoken word, out of the domain of
speaking and listening, and put them into a mere
close approximation to
transformation
ie into the domain of the written word, into the domain of
writing and reading. When I write them down they
lose some of the very quality which made them noteworthy in the first
place.
What I write as these
Conversations For
Transformation
may leave you with an experience of
transformation.
Indeed, it's my
intention
they will. What I look like is only secondary to this
process - in all likelihood it plays very little part in it at all.
