I am indebted to Marissa Carlisle and to Anna Taglieri and to Peter
Stanford and to Richard Cutttler and to
Alexandra Platt
and to Arthur Pufford and to Tamara Saitowitz and to Katryn Jehane
Price and to Paula Zolezzi and to Elizabeth Russell and to Christine
Mercado and to Brandon 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 Cheney and to
Andee Platt
and to Claudette Crump and to Karen Donovan and to
Joshua Platt
and to Peter Ashken and to Elize Naudé Greeff and to Michael
Schropp and to 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 who inspired this
conversation, and to Fred Gruber and to Susan Shafer and to Anna
Taglieri and to
Charlene Afremow
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.
