I love this, and I hope he keeps it up. This is the personal website of our new Prime Minister, Paul Martin. On the site is a blog which has been sleeping since October, but there is also Paul Martin with Flat Mark, a photo montage of the new Prime Minister going about his day with a cardboard cut out doll called Flat Mark. He even poses with Flat Mark as he is waiting to be called into the Governer-General’s residence to be sworn in as Canada’s 21st prime minister. It is about time our political leaders had blogs, and …
Over the past few months, several people have been exploring the applications of Christopher Alexander’s Pattern Language to endeavours other than architecture. Peter Lindberg has been concerning himself with the application of patterns to software development. The folks at BlueOxen have been looking at Patterns of community building and collaboration, Mike Lee blogged patterns of introducing change into organizations last summer, and Michael Herman and I took a shot at defining some patterns of Open Space Technology based on The Nature of Order. We’re not done yet. (I have to say that pattern languages have not helped the patternlanguage.com people …
From the Winter 2001 issue of Barrow Street: Balance by Jane Hirshfield Balance is noticed most when almost failed of- in an elephant’s delicate wavering on her circus stool, for instance, or that moment when a ladder starts to tip but steadies back. There are, too, its mysterious departures. Hours after the dishes are washed and stacked, a metal bowl clangs to the floor, the weight of drying water all that altered; a painting vertical for years one morning-why?- requires a restoring tap. You have felt it disappearing from your own capricious heart- a restlessness enters, the smallest leaning begins. …
In memoriam: Genevieve Bergeron Nathalie Croteau Anne-Marie Edward Maryse Laganiere Anne-Marie Lemay Michele Richard Annie Turcotte Helene Colgan Barbara Daigneault Maud Haviernick Maryse LeClair Sonia Pelletier Annie St-Arneault Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz