For the second time in two weeks, I’m back in Ottawa, one of my former residences, and a part of Canada that I love very much. I arrived yesterday afternoon and spent the evening walking around my old haunts on Elgin Street, going to see Milk and then finishing with a late dinner at The Manx Pub, a place located four doors down from the first place Caitlin and I lived after we moved to Ottawa in 1991. The Manx opened three weeks after we got there and it’s still going strong. Today a day of teaching hosting, …
To some it may seem that we are simply cast about like so much cosmic flotsam and jetsam – and on a day when the partner of the moment is dark chaos that is surely the experience. But partners change and the dance moves on – light creative order enters our experience. How wonderful it might be to hold that moment for ever. . . The ecstacy is not in the moment, But in its passage. To hold the moment is to destroy it – The ending of the dance. I think we are all dancers who live fully when …
From my newsreader this week: Peter Rukavina blogs a fish eye view (or sushi eye view) of a Japanese evening out. Dirk at mediabuzzard on the history of Chinese – First Nations relations in British Columbia
Last week I was working with an interesting group of 60 Aboriginal folks who work within the Canadian Forces and the department of National Defense, providing advice and support on Aboriginal issues within the military and civilian systems. We ran two half days in Open Space to work on emerging issues and action plans. In an interesting side conversation, I spoke with a career soldier about fear. This man, one of the support staff for the gathering, had worked for a couple of decades as a corporal, mostly working as a mechanic on trucks. We got into …
Interesting reads this week: DeAnna Martin on a design for using Dynamic Facilitation with large groups Worldchanging Canada has a great post about art derived from the complexity of nature Metafilter link of an insane film about fishing for Great White Sharks. From a beach. Surfing is involved. Rob Bailey on the perfect crab curry Ravi Tangri on innovation in the service industry in hard times Nancy White, with palpable delight wraps up her take on Northern Voice Sheri Herndon emailed an interesting link about how Obama communicates by George Lakoff Dustin Rivers takes his blog to new digs. …