Nipun and Guri are on a pilgrimage. They are keeping a blog. As they walk around northern India, they are looking for God, for compassion for giving and receiving. I think this is the most important weblog on the internet at the moment. I have been reading every single post, reading them out to others, reading and re-reading their accounts of engaged service. It continues to inspire me, in ways that pop out all over the place, like in this recent podcast of a conversation I had with Jack Ricchiuto and George Nemeth. Lately I have found myself actually physically …
From our hometown hero, Kinnie Starr: Alright. …Your mind leads my eye to a world more beautiful… mp3: Kinnie Starr – Alright
I’ve been hanging out with Ashley Cooper and Thomas Arthur this week learning how to juggle, playing Uno and Yahtzee and using the advantage of new eyes on the island to see things in a delightful new way. Both of these two lovely people have that gift. And as a result of spending time hanging, there hasn’t been much blogging, but I have been doing some reading, and here are the latest things I’ve noticed: Animals laughed long before humans arrived on the scene. They haven’t been laughing much since then. Here’s a heck of a question from generationsit: Forget …
Song from Alison David: …Pure and clear I feel warmth whenever you�re near me You�re my family and you�ll always be Brothers and sisters coming together as one All the things you do Keep me loving you Just the way you are Keep shining like a star… mp3: Allison David – Keep Shining Like A Star
More on the simple rules of community forming… Here is Shawn’s current thinking on community formation: Simple rule 1: Participating in a community must be easy. Hold meetings on a regular basis�say the first Tuesday of the month. Make the technology dead simple. Avoid technology until you need it. Simple rule 2: Someone �who matters� must care about what you are doing. In the early stages it might be quite unclear how your community�s activities delivers business value. Consequently, the �people that matter� must initially believe in the concept of a community of practice. More importantly, the core team and …