Theses on Sustainability: [18] NO, THERE IS NO PRECEDENT for what we are struggling to create. We have to make it up ourselves. A great set of theses which ends with this one. And therefore the capacities to create what is unprecedented are also unprecedented. Best practices for what will be needed in the future are not available at any scale in the precedent. The call in the world now is to move to discover new ways of being at every scale. Some of this new ways will draw on old ways, some of it will draw on contemporary ways …
At Disneyland. Yes. # Roof top lunch in Santa Monica. # Caitlin: a good life skill is to take every opportunity to look at babies. # http://yfrog.com/gyacennj new moon, sunset in the desert at an empty and cheap resort in Palm Springs CA. Ty priceline! # Last night the katabatic wind coated the car in a fine layer of dust. Today the desert is bright and clear. #
At the end of a week in california with the family, capped off by some short hikes and a rock balancing session in Joshua Tree National Park. Beautiful, but disturbing. This photo is of a rock balanced at 4800 feet overlooking the Coachella Valley which is filled with smog that blows in from the Los Angeles basin. A little bit of balance restored.
Such a clean, clearing, steady wind this morning drying everything and freshening the tops of the firs. Not a wren to be seen! # Gomes manages to play goal like a bumblebee manages to fly: it violates the laws of physics but it seems to work. #coys # Bowen Islanders…make a NewYears resolution to learn some of the local Skw language: http://bit.ly/hGCVAJ @squamishlang # After screen of storms with wind and rain it would be fair to say that the morning appears "relaxed." # Winter morning http://post.ly/1OrT9 # Another calm carnelian colored dawn http://yfrog.com/h0f63dnj #
I continue to learn about the effect of the feminine. Today I was walking with friends by Bridal Falls on Bowen Island where I live and we stopped at the waterfall to reflect on the nature of flow. This standing wave caught our attention and it immediately drew me into thoughts on the complementarity of the masculine and feminine. For a long time I have been a student of the Tao, understanding the relationship between yang and yin. In Taoist thought, these two conditions exist in everything and are in constant and dynamic relationship. Yang is usually thought of as …