Michael Herman has been working: “i noticed the messes i made, the things i forgot to do, the things i avoided, and the things left half-finished in distraction. i noticed, too, the things that other[s] did before i could get to them. this made more space for everybody.” From a lovely post on the deep implications of focussing on small things.
It’s been a crazy busy week, travelling the length of Vancouver Island in a car and now in the middle of teaching a two day course at the Chief Dan George Centre, at Simon Fraser University. So here’s something out of the blue – literally. From a new read, bird on the moon comes this piece about dolphins who create toruses made of air and play with them. The young dolphin gives a quick flip of her head, and an undulating silver ring appears–as if by magic–in front of her. The ring is a solid, toroidal bubble two feet across–and …
I’ve been working a lot with youth over the my career in all kinds of fields. This week I got another chance to work with the members of the teens and 20s leadership generation at an event hosted by Cool Vancouver, which is the City of Vancouver’s sustainability plan around greenhouse gas reductions. I am working with the excellent friends at Karyo Communications, who are logistics wizards, and do they ever know how to write invitations. We put out an invitation to the world and got 160 youth showing up on Wednesday evening to discuss tapping youth leadership to make …
Mipun Mehta is a blogger I love reading, especially for tidbits like this:: “At this restaurant, you don’t get billed for your food. Pay what you like, their slogan reads. It sound unbelievable but there’s a fully volunteer-run, high-end restaurant — Annalakshmi — where they trust that everyone will pay their fair share. And the food was awesome too! A very kind lady, who has been there since Annalakshmi opened in Singapore 20 years ago, spoke with us for a bit. I asked why she does this, and she replied, ‘I don’t know. It just fills my heart. I don’t …
Hmmm. I was once half-jokingly called “optimistic to the point of uselessness” which is a badge I wear with some pride as my fool’s marker. Optimism has been on my mind today. I’ve just been turning over these words: optimism, hope, faith, responsibility, trust. No reason, no particular cause to examine these ideas, just a little synchronicity in blog land that got me musing a little. Partly it comes from a bunch of work I am doing in which people in various walks of life are dicovering their emerging futures, and it’s partly about some of the blogs I am …