The Wayfarers
by Rupert Brooke
Is it the hour? We leave this resting-place
Made fair by one another for a while.
Now, for a god-speed, one last mad embrace;
The long road then, unlit by your faint smile.
Ah! the long road! and you so far away!
Oh, I’ll remember! but . . . each crawling day
Will pale a little your scarlet lips, each mile
Dull the dear pain of your remembered face.
. . . Do you think there’s a far border town, somewhere,
The desert’s edge, last of the lands we know,
Some gaunt eventual limit of our light,
In which I’ll find you waiting; and we’ll go
Together, hand in hand again, out there,
Into the waste we know not, into the night?
Photo by zyber
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A fantastic article detailing what went in to the process to save the crew of Apollo 13.
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This is a documentary about the first female principal beaten to death by the Red Guards in the beginning of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China.
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A library, speeches, images and more
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An article about some friends that are working their butts off in Vancouver.
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We’ve eaten, developed and drilled to near oblivion, says the environmental writer. It’s time to realize that having more stuff is not the road to paradise. Oh, really?
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Website for a brilliant film on flow, natural systems and small change.
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Rob Paterson produces a stunning summary of what we can learn about leadership and collaboration from what the Canadians pulled off at Vimy Ridge in 1917.
Get thee to Nanaimo on April 28 if you are interested in meeting with other Open Space process artists! If you have taken the Art of Hosting, Open Space practice workshops, or are a current or future Open Space wizard you should know that Wendy Farmer-O’Neill and Raffi Aftandelian are co-hosting an informal gathering over beer and war stories:
In confluence with our friends to the east who will be opening space at the Toronto OSonOS, we are hosting a West Coast Canada Stammtisch on Saturday, April 28th for all of those who want to join us. We will be gathering at Muddy Waters Marine Pub (within walking distance of the Vancouver Ferry) on the water in Nanaimo at 1:00. We look forward to seeing you there!
I would be there except I have to be in Ohio that day. Email Wendy for more info.
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THink you had a bad day? Put it to scale.
If you have been following along with the story of threats against Kathy Sierra, this will likely be no news to you. But if you haven’t you can start by reading her blog post about this situation in which she was vilely and violently threatened by an anonymous blogger, the act and response to which launched a flurry of bad feelings everywhere.
Yesterday, Kathy and Chris Locke, one of the bloggers she had singled out held an actual conversation and the harvest is here is a dual set of Coordinated Statements on the whole affair. What is important to note is that they enjoyed the conversation with one another, they met, truly and openly as human beings who had a common purpose that overrode their stories about one another. And it seems like they discovered each other for the first time.
This sort of goes to show that, as lovely as the internet is for helping us have conversations, the conversations that really matter are the ones that are face to face (or mouth to ear, in this case, the next best thing). No amount of virtual back and forth can substitute for the genuine progress that can be made in two hours of storytelling. The internet helps us do this, but it is not a proxy for doing this. I applaud Kathy and Chris for their simple act of grace.