I have been engaging with Lenore Ealy since the Giving Conference in Chicago. She turned me on to Richard Cornuelle’s work which seems prescient in many ways. This paper, De-Nationalizing Community (.pdf) is a short but very interesting read. It weaves together anarchist and libertarian perspectives arguing that the idea of community has been appropriated by government. The paper generated a really interesting spark of mutual interest between Lenore and I. We come from very different political poles and through our conversations I have been losing my grip on political spectrums, compasses and other typologies, which can only be a …
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Through Euan, I found out that Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the author of On Death and Dying, herself died on Wednesday. Her work on the grief cycle especially has been very influential in my own life in dealing with people, organizations and communities undergoing deep change. But her legacy, as David Weinberger points out, may be that she gave North American culture a language for talk about death and being with dying people.
Canada’s new twenty dollar bill from the Bank of Canada Lately we have had a lot of nice art on our money. With the recent new designs for our bills, we now have a gorgeous five dollar bill featuring kids tobaganning and playing hockey with a quote from Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater,” as iconic a book about Canadian winters as there is. But today comes an exciting development. At the end of next month the Bank of Canada will release the new series of twenty dollar bills and this time they feature a selection of work from Haida artist …
The 2004 Guide to Aboriginal organizations and services in British Columbia is now available for download from the provincial government. In addition to being a great resource, every year I get more and more amazed with the amount of activity that is happening around the province. Self-government happens right here at the coal face, as people and communities organize to make things better. If you want amazing stories of people working for change, phone any one of these organizations and start asking!
Dave Andreychuk hoists the Stanley Cup from the Hockey Hall of Fame Here it is…this must surely be the final nail in the coffin for our national airline. Air Canada lost the Stanley Cup and the Cup’s handler blew a gasket: “He told them specifically it was the Stanley Cup,” Goertzen said. “He is just so distraught.” Fitness gym owner Brent Lock, who had planned to view the Cup Sunday, said he doesn’t understand how Air Canada could have left it behind. “It’s not like it’s a brown paper bag; it’s the holy grail,” he said. Here in Canada there …