Sustaining and Enhancing Reform

Abstract

Each day before I begin work I play a game of FreeCell solitaire on the computer. When working at home, I tell my wife that it gives the machine and my brain a few minutes to warm up—to get all systems up to speed. When in the office, I keep the door closed until the last row of cards zips into place, knowing that passersby will think Im wasting time and being frivolous if they happen in while a game is in progress. But the ritual has much greater significance to getting my day underway. It demonstrates my own personal Fundamental Law of the Universe—There is always a solution.

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

—Margaret Wheatley