I am impressed by the following metaphor when it comes to learning, reaching and reaching out: infusion / waiving. In future posts, I will elaborate on the analogies between these seemingly very different fields.
Infusion:
how to let a subject infuse? penetration, penetrability, diffusion, time and space of contact, mixing without disturbing, blending, getting the flavor, getting the essence...
Pictures below can help relate and bring us a little step further in elaborating a clearer notion of an "infusion-based learning and facilitation"
Waiving
The long process(es) - creating thread, dying, weaving, the shuttle, going up and down, the science involved (it is very exact in a way - it goes thread by thread - and if not exact, it will look awkward) , the long, gruesome, time-consuming practice of it and how it is learnt (passed on from mother to daughter - as some form of apprenticeship - and how it often reflects on someone's maturity level or level of preparedness - like in the case of a young bride who is completing her own work or tapestry, or as a matter of fact it could be batik though batik is not about weaving).
Buckminster Fuller in the Critical Path is making explicit allusion to weaving patterns of South East Asia and those weaving patterns that use tri-angular weaving (three points of contacts which make the pattern almost indestructible).
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