If you have been visting here in the last week live, as opposed to through a newsreader, you will have noticed a major change in the look of this weblog. I’ve also been rocking and rolling behind the scenes. The rest of my website has been redesigned and is now live. I built it using pmwiki and some of the open source skins that are out there. Feel free to have a look around. I have added several new bits and pieces, including a more substantial list of facilitation resources, additions of stories, resources and notes to …
I’m switching over to WordPress, and so blogging might be light until I can get everything tweaked just right. I want to take this opportunity to thank Blogger for five years of great free services. I have had very few problems with Blogger over the years, and I’ll still be using it for several blogs and bits and pieces I’m working on. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to using WordPress and I ask your indulgence to bear with me through this change. Tags: wordpress, blogger
I’ve been losing posts somehow. My post on waiting and emergence shows up in my archives, but not on the front page here or in my dashboard. Anyone know what’s up? Time for a move to WordPress? Tags: blogger, wordpress
I piece I wrote here after the BALLE conference in June was republished on the Sustainable Review website. Nice of them to re-publish my work. Would have been nicer if they had contacted me and asked me to fix the typos. Ah well…the price of glory! Categories: firstnations, sustainability, local, economy, BALLE
From the logs of The Whalesong Project, located in Kihei on Maui: We witnessed a beautiful and unusual, from a modern western perspective, event this week. Raina Ferris visited us from Aotearoa, New Zealand, and we took her out on the ocean to support her cultural interest and connection to the whales. Raina is a Maori kai-karanga tahuna (spiritual chanter) and professor of Maori studies at Te Wanganga O Raukawa in Otaki. She came to Maui to share Maori tradition, and to further research on ancient ties between Maui and Aotearoa – alluded to in the ancestral chants of her …