Delights:

• Tajik Jimmy and more.
• We’re number 37 from my friend Jerry Nagel
• Malcolm Gladwell on what Atticus Finch was really up to.

Morsels on inspiration and thought:

• Ashley Cooper on Chris Jordan’s trip to Midway to document the catastrophic results of our plastic world.
• Dave Pollard articluates a framework for personal action.
• Phaedra Eliis-Lamkins on Van Jones, green jobs and the meaning of the moment: “Our team doesn’t feel fierce enough to be a team.” (link via Dave Pollard)
• Keith Loutit produces a stunningly cool film about a coast guard helicopter rescue exercise using time lapse and tiltshift.  Has to be seen to be believed.

Steamed and ready to eat:

• Dave Pollard publishes a valuable personal redux of Joanna Macy’s work.
• Holger Nauheimer on whether people resist change.
• George Por on connecting our conversations
• Jaime Casico on how collective intellegence makes us smarter
• Sustaining powerful collective conversations – a discussion at The Presencing Institute

Harvested this week:

• Jeremy Hiebert reflects on the life and death of Oliver Schroer.
• Alex Kjerulf finds a beautiful film about passion for work – in a specialty soda store.
• Mushin is building a mind map to look at reall community building.

The week that was of webby goodness:

• ANAblog continues with their series of Mercury Prize nominees, with full length sounds samples.
• The Onion with the best analysis of US health care reform.
• Geist magazine posts a photo essay of dying British Columbia towns