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Monthly Archives "November 2022"

Joel Waterman, Canada’s soccer teams, supporter culture, and a community of dreams.

November 22, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Featured, Football

Canada National Team player Joel Waterman, playing in 2017 for TSS Rovers, the club I co-own with more than 300 community owners. I want to tell about how I came to own part of a semi-pro soccer team, and how one of the men’s team players who played for us in 2017 is about to step on the field for Canada in the men’s World Cup. Tonight somewhere in Qatar, a young man from Aldergrove BC is lying down in his bed and hoping he can get some sleep. Joel Waterman was named to the 26 player Canada National Men’s …

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Remembering George Zawadzki, a Bowen Island legend

November 21, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Bowen, Featured 5 Comments

George Zawadzki, photo from Bowen Island Undercurrent Every community has larger than life characters and it seems like the smaller the community the larger these characters loom. I live on a small island of just under 5000 people and last week, on November 16, we lost a lion-hearted beauty. George Zawadzki was probably the biggest man on Bowen Island. He stood at least 6’5″ and was a BIG man. He used to drive a small car around that had a permanent lean to the left. The first time my kids met him, he was coming up the driveway with a …

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Updates and some shares

November 18, 2022 By Chris Corrigan Art of Harvesting, Art of Hosting, Being, Complexity, Facilitation, Featured, Football, Music

It’s been a fair few interesting weeks. A heavy work schedule with some important in person facilitations, combined with steady online work and teaching and an extended family health emergency is stretching our resources around here. So here’s a little news. Social media rethink On the social media front I’m still active on Twitter, and just waiting to see what happens there. But I have also opened a Mastodon account and I like it better. Twitter was created in an era where the speed and interaction and brevity of text messaging met blogging. Mastodon feels much more like blogging in …

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