From time to time as I travel around the country working on First Nations issues, I sometimes hear from non-Aboriginal people how First Nations were immigrants too, as if this somehow undermines the notion of Aboriginal title. While no one population group ever seems to stay put for very long, First Nations have had a very long history of occupation of the coast. Here in the Vancouver area settlements dating back 9000 have been discovered in a number of places along the Fraser River and in parts of Burrard inlet. These settlements would have been established not long after the …
Starting a list of weekly linkage to interesting places I have seen but not dwelled much in this week: Carnegie Mellon’s Journal of Social Structure publishaed a paper called Visualizing Social Networks. Amazing, with lots of visuals. Via Abstract Dynamics A collection of atmospheric items of interest at Apothacary’s Drawer Co-creating value with customers at Beyond Branding January edition of Top Canadian Blogs from BlogsCanada New Google features from Google Weblog via boing boing Addictive fish feeding game Jim Moore on Why Blogs Matter In Praise of Individuation by Sen McGlinn: What I am beginning to question is a view …
I’ve been looking at flow states and transformative moments lately especially with relation to how these states lead to various forms of freedom. Today I find on Bernie DeKoven’s DeepFUN some words about what he calls “Coliberation.” It’s long but worh quoting in full: CoLiberation: what happens when we work extraordinarily well together. Like on a basketball team or in an orchestra, when we actually experience ourselves sharing in something bigger than any one present. This is what I call the experience of the Big WE. It’s a corollary to the Big ME experience of self-transcendence. If the Big ME …
This is going to sound funny, but I startled myself with the thought today that I am a small-business owner and an entrepreneur. It sounds funny because I was asked if I would like to compete on a request for proposals. I said “I don’t compete” which is true, because I am a one-man show and I CAN’T compete against firms with offices and slick marketing materials and secretarial support (all of which it seems is designed to make the firm look credible enough to win the bids it needs to support the infrastructure it has…I believe Buddhists call this …
Card from the Osho Zen Tarot This thread on circles is getting some legs. It has generated a flood of responses at the Open Space email list, Dave Pollard picked it up and today Fast Company magazine’s blog quotes Dave. Wonderful! And yet, my favourite response so far comes from my friend Ashley Cooper who emailed the OSLIST with this gem from the poet Osho: “Your inner being, when it opens, first experiences two directions: the height, the depth. And then slowly, slowly, as this becomes your established situation, you start looking around, spreading into all other eight directions. And …