To Live In Another Way by Nora Bateson

At first, it appears that it is the parts of the system that must be made better or fixed.

Then it becomes clear that the system is not in the parts – it is in the relationships between them.

So, it seems like it is the relationships that need to be made better or fixed.

But relationships, it turns out, are made of communication.

And then – The communication becomes the place to address the needed adaptations.

And then – You realize what is communicated is not what is expressed or even what is not expressed – It is what it is possible to express.

That is where the limits move, in the combining,

How shall I tend to the premises of what is possible to communicate?

From the book Combining