Medium Short: Just Ice Is Served

Change is hidden, seems slow, is always there

B. Lorraine Smith
4 min readFeb 3, 2023
My neighbour’s bike, currently. It feels strangely representative of so much. (Photos by me.)

Welcome to the latest Medium Short, a weekly accountability practice highlighting what I am reading, writing, and doing along the unmarked trail towards #IndustrialHealing. By the way, all of my articles are freely available through this link.

Right about now, progress feels like my neighbour’s bike currently buried in snow and ice. Realizing some forces are far greater than I am, this week I took my own advice (a word that happens to have ice hidden within, come to think of it). I’ll get to that advice with the “doing” below, in a sec — but first, some reading and (not very much) writing.

Reading: Solutions present and past

This week I thought I would finish Peter Gelderloos’ The Solutions Are Already Here. I want to write up a piece about it, maybe even summon the courage to invite him for a chat like the one I did with Patty Krawec). I didn’t finish, but I’m close — it is one heck of a read! If books were ranked by head-exploding emoji it would be a 5 🤯 for sure. I’m looking forward to reading what happens in the end…

The Boudica reading continues. It’s placed in AD 32, yet in a strange way it underscores so much of the present puzzles, reminding us the solutions really are already…

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B. Lorraine Smith

Former sustainability consultant replacing ESG with reality-based insights about corporate purpose and impact. https://www.blorrainesmith.com/