Yesterday my childhood football team Tottenham Hotspur saw it’s magnificent 2010-2011 campaign begin a slow limp to a disappointing ending. This was an incredible year for the team, making the UEFA Champions League at the close of last season, narrowly qualifying for the group stage, going on an incredible run to finish top of the group and then knocking off AC Milan to get to the Quarter Final, one stage further than our fierce rivals, Arsenal. Along the way we have had some great victories and matches, including some incredible league derby games against Arsenal, and some scintillating attacking …
This afternoon sitting in the forest above my house in the warm sun. Insects are everywhere, flies landing on me to say hello, the moss and rocks on the cliff warm and dry. I am sitting with a mug of tea made from the first tender leaves of the season’s lemon balm. Listening to silence punctuated by a squirrel chattering in a rhythmic patterns of sevens “cheap a cheap cheap, cheap a cheap”. He is consistent enough that I can drum softly on the moss beside me in time with his voice and sing a little song about belonging. Making …
News from Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea about upcoming PeerSpirit Circle trainings, including a new advanced course. This may be some of the finest learning you will ever do with respect to learning about and working with groups: The PeerSpirit Circle Practicum gathers small groups of people at retreat centers for four-and-a-half days of intensive, experiential learning that blends council time with significant skill development. via PeerSpirit : Circle Training, Circle Process, Circle Practicum.
200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes via JordonCooper.com. While this is a cool data visulaization, it strikes me as remarkable how hard it is for sub-Saharan Africa to catch the rest of the world. Stephen Lewis can tell you why.
I have submitted to the cloud. As I get older and juggle ndiverse projects I notice that my memory is starting to get worse. My mind is incredibly active these days, full of ideas, snippets of poetry and song, meeting designs, half written blog posts/ I have had a mish-mash of ways of recording these ideas in the past: audio notes on an iPod, photos on a camera, notes in a Moleskine, or on a blog somewhere. Recently I acquired my first iPhone, and this has made life easier but has changed a lot of my routines. …