Meeting in the middle

I saw this Prickly City (pricklycity@gmail.com) cartoon by Scott Stantis awhile back (15 August 2010) and saved it because I thought it was so great.



It does a great job of showing the contentiousness involved in upholding binaries--up vs. down, in vs. out, for us vs. against us. Perhaps even more importantly, however, it shows the difficulty of attempting to work beyond binaries. That is, that even when do desire for unity/reconciliation/negotiation/etc. that we find ourselves in an environment where there is no middle ground.

However, it's not there is no middle ground available, just that we have not envisioned or created it (yet). So, here's to reminding us all that we can meet in the middle, but that sometimes in order to do so, we must create that middle!