pp190508 Printmaking Access:  The means to communication

The goal is printmaking access. 

The means is communication. 

The objective is trade. 

The trading objects are printing presses and farm honey. 

Review of Stephen Covey’s Quadrants of resource allocation:

On any given day, ask how one is doing in following this guide? As one’s time is running out, this quadrant becomes more important every day; and as the Earth’ human and other life-sustainability is diminished, importance becomes critical.

There is another quadrant in my mind which is one which places cynicism, skepticism, criticism and hope in places in the quadrant, similar to (and complementary to) the above.

It is possible that cynicism fits in the lower-left quadrant, alongside the unimportant, non-urgent factors. A cynic is a personal trait of knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing.[1]

A skeptic might be placed above this, at the upper left. A skeptic allows that there is a value, but it must be measured and analyzed – and soon – because time is running out and the bets bet must be placed and acted upon. The clock is ticking. This is a trait of an old man whose lifetime is shorter than it was when he was young.

In the lower right, the critic is one who can see there is a crisis but there is time to analyze, think, write criticism (as I am doing right now) yet without taking real, physical and tangible work.

The fourth quadrant is hope. When a person has a structure for collaboration, it is like an insurance policy for hope.[2] Many older people will exhibit this, and younger people can only wonder why. When one is old, how can one be positive in their outlook?

In my case, it is because I believe collaboration is possible if one can structure it by drawing from resources.

The first and most important resource is time. Using time with Earth’s human and other life-sustainability as the goal, one can set one’s alarm clock, as it were, awaken and act every day as if it were his or her last opportunity.

Because one day, this will be true.

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[1] Oscar Wilde is credited with this observation.

[2] Rosabeth Moss-Kanter said this.