My dear friend John Engle is an Open Space facilitator living and working in Haiti. I just found out that he has a blog (oh joy!) and he blogs from Haiti about the recent unrest there, and how nothing is ever as simple as it seems: Merline and I do live, witnessing the violence of grinding poverty: hungry people on one’s path so often, children living on the streets, people who are seriously ill but have no money for treatment or pain relievers. The violence that is making the news right now stems from the grinding violence of poverty, which …
Saskatchewan was fantastic, and I’ll write more about it soon. In addition to working with some amazing First Nations and Metis youth in Prince Albert and Saskatoon, I had a nice dinner with fellow blogger and Hockey Pundit Jordon Cooper, chatting over the NHL, Christianity and politics. The moment I got home though, and started catching up on my reading, I got gobsmacked by Michael Herman who has just posted something on markets that resonates: …since we know that profit, per se, is not essential to life, we can say this another way. we can say that if markets and …
Off to Saskatchewan for a week, where last week a spot near Prince Albert recorded a temperature of -53.2C and was noted as the coldest place on earth that day. Blogging may be light. In Meadow Lake it got down to -60 with the wind chill. Jesus. What the hell am I doing? Anyway, to keep up to date while my teeth are cracking, why not subscribe to my handy RSS feed? I think at -60 light freezes, so the fibre optics may not be working, but if something does make it down the pipe, you’ll be the first to …
Linkage: Large collection of books bay and about Gandhi online The Satir Change Model. Via ourhouse Ten traps for facilitators Math and physics visualizers. Via boing boing Joy Harjo blogs the passing of James Welch Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database The 1919 Molasses Disaster via Reinvented A collection of Balanced Scorecard Methodology links Digiquaria: a digital aquarium Lovely review of BBC Symphony Orchestra’s John Cage performance via Brian’s Culture Blog
Quite a day of connecting in meatspace with cyber colleagues. This morning it was a conversation with Marcelo Vieta at Bojangles on Denman Street in Vancouver. Marcelo is putting together a Master’s thesis on blogging using a phenomenological framework to look at the role of users and technology in the creation of online community. He’s doing research on bloggers and if you’re in Vancouver and you think about this stuff, you should get in touch with him so he can include you in his research. The conversations alone are worth it. We talked for an hour about truth and why …