June 25, 2025: supporting creation

How low can you go? Today is the lowest tide of the summer here on Bowen Island, during which the water will drop to 0.01m around noon. There will be lots of folks scrambling around on the mud flats looking for creatures that we never otherwise get to see. The lowest tide of the year is in December (which is also the most extreme tide this year) when we have a 0.0m low tide and a 5.0m high.

A propos of yesterday’s notes, Brian O’ Neill writes today about a similar topic, and I find myself trending in his direction with respect to how I am spending my time: more fiction, fewer news sites, no social media, hang out with humans.

UBI Caritas. That’s a pun. Buried in this excellent article in The Walrus about the death of the middle class musician, is a passing lament for the idea that a universal basic income would make our prosperous society truly amazing because we could support the artists in a meaningful way. I think it would be the hallmark of a society “winning” that it has created and sustained a UBI for all of its members. As it is, we are actually “losing,” given that in our society the trend is exactly the opposite: guaranteed income for fewer and fewer people, while everyone else gives up interesting parts of their lives in favour of scraping by.

Mark McKergow bucks that trend. I’ve know Mark for a while now, and not only is he a consultant, teacher, author and researcher, but he is also a community builder and a jazz musician. His last post of the season shares a classic paper he wrote on using the Solutions Focus approach for better decision making.