Eighteen months ago, my friend Avner Haramati and his family came to visit Bowen Island. Avner is a remarkable facilitator of dialogue working in Israel and elsewhere. He travels a lot around the world, but his daughters were in North America for the first or second time in 2003. For his 18 year old daughter Michal, being in North America was a surprise. She had no idea that so many people had an opinion on Israel. One evening while we were eating she flat out asked me why North Americans should care about Israel. I have to admit I was …
Just back from my own personal blogwalk with Seb Paquet who popped over the Bowen for the afternoon. We went for a stroll down to Cape Roger Curtis, which is the soutwestern headland of our island sticking out into the Strait of Georgia. Surrounded by tugboats and logbooms, a lighthouse and a craggy arbutus tree, we talked about blogging, the shift from a socity of experts to a society of co-creative learners and other assorted and interesting topics. It was great to meet Seb, who joins the ranks of bloggers who have pitched up here on Bowen for a walk …
The Northern Voice blogging conference was going on yesterday just over the water from me in Vancouver. I’m not there, electing instead to stay here on Bowen Island and get a weekend of nothingness in. There has been a lot of travel lately. However I kept up with the goings on through Nancy White’s blog which has set new standards for conference blogging in terms of pure output. I’m also due to receive an oral report of the goings-on from Seb, who will arriving on Bowen this afternoon to join my family for a walk down at Cape Roger Curtis.
Apropos of my post a couple of days back on vision and action comes a nice quote from Flemming: The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors …
The Indian Rope Trick, whereby a “fakir” suspends a rope in mid air and has an accomplice climb it, provides a rich ground to examine the enduring nature of mental models and other stories we force ourselves to believe. The New York Times > Books >This whole piece is worth the read but here’s the money shot: So…perhaps the true secret of the Indian Rope Trick is the way the supple human memory combines events we’ve really seen with legends we’ve only heard, and shapes them into the best possible story to tell our grandchildren.” What’s interesting to me is …