Photo courtesy of Harrison Owen My friend and mentor Harrison Owen has provided periodic doses of inspiration for me for years now. Today he posted something on the OSLIST that invited a long response from me. Harrison wrote: The morning newspaper comes with all sorts of stores about space closing. Israel is building a fence, the Marines have closed off Falujah, we in the US struggle with the Patriot Act, folks in Spain are wondering when the next terrorists will strike, and how to keep them out . . . It is getting pretty close. And the closer it gets …
Over the past three days I’ve been working with 15 Aboriginal youth from around British Columbia who gathered in Vancouver to work on a couple of projects. What is amazing about these youth is that today we started working on a foundation that will be the basis of support for emerging Aboriginal youth leadership in perpetuity. Ranging in age from 15-29, these young people are undaunted by the minutiae of setting up a foundation. “What we don’t know we can learn; what we can do, we will do.” That pretty much describes the energy. What gives me so much hope …
From the daily little Buddhist email I get from Beliefnet One moon appears everywhere in all bodies of water; the moons in all bodies of water are contained in one moon. This is a metaphor for one mind producing myriad things and myriad things producing one mind. This refers to dream illusions, flowers in the sky, half-seeming, half empty. -Hsueh-yen There is something afoot at the moment all over the world. Emails and phone calls are coming in from all over North America, Europe, New Zealand and Australia. It’s hard to pin down but it has to do with a …
Back home from New Zealand with a head full of memories. Lots will be unfolding there in the next little while, and I’ll keep you abreast of developments there. In the meantime, I’d like to draw your attention to two things happening in North America in the next few months. First, John Engle, who is back in the States from Haiti, is convening a conference in Washington DC on April 30 and June 1 called The Do-Gooder’s Exchange. From the invitation: As you already know, the gap between the world�s rich and poor continues to grow. This gathering is for …
Nelson, New Zealand Just completed a 1.5 day OST training workshop here in Nelson with 9 folks from this region and Tauranga, The Bay of Plenty, on the north island. One of the outcomes from the gathering, and following on from the Te TauIhu economic summit, has been the establishment of a local network of indigenous practitioners here in Aotearoa. We have already set up a web page at OpenSpaceWorld.NET where projects can unfold.