Crystal glass water music Indivisible oneness: a gorgeous essay by Evelyn Rodriguez Rheingold on the coming age of cooperation Go fill your ears with music: The mammoth list of mp3 blogs The Grand Plan to get the US onto to solar energy. Some fine organizational tools for non-profits and philanthropic endeavours An amazing conversation on the collective Buddha
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The two most important women in my life Jack Ricchiuto: In my work with a new hospital north of Denver yesterday, one of the senior managers commented that one of the things that struck him most was the idea that people do not feel an authentic sense of accountability simply because we place on them demands that take away their freedom of choice. We feel this when people have faith in us. Would you rather be accountable to a friend or a contract? Is it friendship or paper that binds two people’s integrity together? My modus operandi in the world …
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Photo by Nathan Ward Little elements that showed up lately: A beautiful periodic table of the elements by printmakers A reason why I love the web: Indian cooking on YouTube Johnnie brings it on with a great find on power. Bonus is that he also introduces me to Greater Good magazine. Dustin Rivers on unschooling as decolonizing liberation. Dude rocks my world. Jack Martin Leith, a fellow Open Space traveller, has been providing interesting resources on collective genius and innovation for years. This is his recent offering, an engaging power point presentation on world views and pathways to collective innovation. …
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I work with lots of colleagues and in general the flow of money is pretty straightforward. With some fiends though, we often sit with each other and think about what else we could do with the economy. Being clear about money is a life practice – in North American culture money holds all kinds of traps for energy between people. My friend Tenneson Woolf has just blogged on this and he and his colleagues from a recent workshop worked these principles: Whereas the old model for these decisions is more transactional, the new model is energetic. It is …
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A combination of quotes from two different emails today on certainty. First from Ashley Cooper, quoting Daniel Sielgel: “When we are certain we don’t feel the need to pay attention. Given that the world around us is always in flux, our certainty is an illusion.” And then this, from Tenneson Woolf, who currently has my copy of Tsawalk: A Nuu-Chah-Nulth Worldview. From that books is this is a story of Keetsa, an Ahousaht whaling chief who runs into trouble when the space is no longer held for him: Every protocol had been observed between the whaling chief and the spirit …