- The Bowen Christmas craft fair http://post.ly/1ILtR #
- Bright morning with high clouds moving in. Moisture on the air, rain to come…darkness building into the Sound. #
- Great series of three videos with Peter Block talking about community, convening and social capital: http://youtu.be/CwahGcEiAr0 #
- Peaceful at #yvr on a Tuesday morning. Time to browse the world's best collection of First Nations and Inuit art (IMHO!) b4 heading to PG. #
- Shuck a heaviness to this still, dark northern morning. Prince George sits quiet and cold under a smelly cloud of mill smog #
- Back from Prince George. Good #openspace fun hanging with Jesse Bowen and now awaiting the water taxi home in a heavy December monsoon. #
- Trees roar this morning as the southeasterly pumps wet gales into the sound. Off to deepen my learning about hishuk ish tsawalk today. #
- Light mist backlit by a low northern sun. Calm between deluges, as if the eye of a hurricane were passing over us. #
- Bowen U11s pull out a good draw in North Van and my boy nets two cheeky goals from midfield but only one counted. #
- 3 hours of soccer with the boy in the cold rain + hot tub + butternut squash soup by the fire = bliss. http://yfrog.com/h3enawj #
One of the most useful books of the past five years in terms of the work I do is Peter Block’s Community: The Structure of Belonging. In it he aggregates the wisdom of those of us who have been practicing participatory process for the last 30 years in North America. The essence of the work is that social fabric, created through conversations that produce relationships, is the foundation for improvement in communities and the fundamental pre-requisite for effective and sustainable problem solving.
This set of videos is a great introduction to Peter’s work. View parts one, two and three.
Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, and Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz.
- RT @sebpaquet "…in any large organization, any transformation that is to 'stick' must emerge from within." – goes for democracy too, Seb. #
- The absence of the sound of water dripping is deafening. #
- What's Gareth Bale got on the inside of his thighs? Birthmark? #coys #
- Gray air and chilly rain. #
- The clouds are so thick and the rain so heavy that it isn't going to get light today at all methinks. #
- Touring IPS tonight. Missing @braddo. http://yfrog.com/mkkme0j #
- With Pieter del Mundo by Bowen Island's oldest tree, Opa. http://yfrog.com/g1nw60j #
- Open Space listserve needs 2 find a new home. Any1 have an institutional contact that runs listservs that might consider hosting this list? #
- All hail Qatar's rise as a football power! Clearly a world cup in a desert beats one in the USA or Aus. :/ #
- Early morning breakfast at Granville Island. http://yfrog.com/0i8m101j #
- At Granville Island the pigeons feed on YOU! http://yfrog.com/5d669plj #
- One of those days http://post.ly/1HlSU #
- Spurs v Birmingham….Come on you Spurs! Bowen Island v West Vancouver U11s Come on you Bowen Bears! #coys #
- RT @jonhusband: Superbly engaging and interesting lunch w @chriscorrigan today .. <– ditto John…nice to catch up! #
- Clear blustery morning. Venus burns cold in the dawn sky, a pinpoint of brilliant reflective gratitude. http://yfrog.com/3dof50j #
- Fantastic evening lighting up Snug Cove with hundreds of other islanders. True community bringing light in the darkness. #
