A poem from my travels this week in Calgary What we were trying not to see Behind us a cloud rimmed By the electric light of a prairie spring’s Sharp sunset casts a glow On the towers downtown. In that moment of reflection A small truck carrying a small boat Bolts over the Louise Bridge Takes a hard right on Memorial Drive And stops by the new sculpture Full of quotes about war and loss. “they’ve been pulling bodies from the Bow” My companion says and I peer into What little I can see of the churning Waters below, wondering …
If you are not a part of the problem, you cannot be part of the solution. – @adamkahane # Sitting beneath oak trees surrounded by pewees and warblers in Chicago. http://yfrog.com/h24egmwj # You might feel this long grey spring is endless but in the close view of the present moment it is as temporary and as eternal as everything. # Just realizing I'm actually too busy to do everything I need to be doing. What gets dropped? Not my kids, that's for sure. # “@D6MERIT: Has this ever happened to your 2 dollar coin?" Everyone used to pop em out …
Three little words to bear in mind. Tuesday Ryan-Hart and I recorded this little video as part of a series for the ALIA Summer Institute faculty. We were asked to reflect on what three words were important in thinking about what change for good really takes. This was our contribution.
I am here in the Morton Arboretum in Chicago where we are at the end of the first day of an Art of Hosting with our friends in the Illinois community of practice. We have just been harvesting out of a World Cafe that was held on the question of “What time it is in the world?” We used a design I have been using with teams and communities that are needing to do deep sensing. We went for three rounds on the same question and had the hosts at each table go and deeper into the conversations that were …
#WhitecapsFC supporters: no one said this year would be easy. Stay with this team! Let's be SUPPORTERS, not mere fans. Scarves up vs TFC! # Watch the season, miss the blossoms. Watch the blossoms, miss the season. Watch how they are connected, experience the reason. # Spurs did the double over #Liverpoolfc #coys http://yfrog.com/h3vyfqbj # Untitled http://post.ly/22oUs # Full moon. Flat sea. Swelling flood tide. # http://yfrog.com/h0ncxqrj at Playland with the kids on a "science" field trip. Lol. # I just went to look for a book I misplaced and craved a Google for real life things. #thingsarechanging # BowFeast …