“Yes” — it extends boundaries and establishes new playing fields

In our recurring dialogues, patterns of conversation, the habitual ways that we listen and speak, our first response often defaults around a no or a but. Toss in a few intricately constructed reasons justifying that response, and we find ourselves limiting the future in front of us. For anything creative to show up in life—not accidental, not manipulated, not figured out—it shows up in our stand for possibility, in the yes. Standing for possibility comes from nothing and creates a generative field; yes and extends that field and broadens the game. Nothing is the foundation for possibility—from nothing we are able to create with a freedom that's not available when we create from something. In creating possibility, we get to know what's available to us in being human.