If you want to learn the way another culture thinks, listen to their stories. But don’t just listen to any stories; listen to the stories they have about how knowledge is gained. That gives you the key to understanding all of the other stories and teaches you everything you need to know about the experiences you need to have to gain knowledge. Thinking about the Nuu-chah-nulth methodology of oosumich today which is the way of stilling oneself to listen to the world and enter a dialogue with the unseen. My friend Pawa says that prayer is the act of speaking …
I am just returning from a memorial service for my friend and colleague John McBride. John and I worked on a number of Aboriginal economic development projects over the years and he died in October from pancreatic cancer. Today at his memorial his wife Val read some selections from his journals. One insight that really stuck with me was written in his final days as he was making sense of his death. He wrote that the end is about peeling back all the layers of who we have been to discover who we really are at our core. And he …
How's the weather? Pouring rain. Really? Yeah. # The mist on the Sound and the stockings hung with care at #artisaneats on #Bowenisland http://yfrog.com/h4lgtrj # Cocoa West http://post.ly/1KLJO # When the forest breathes at the end of a Pineapple Express: mild, wet and clearing evening. http://yfrog.com/gzkttvj # This morning's rosy tinted dawn. http://yfrog.com/h4ufbojj # Cold front passed. The air is crisp and the ground saturated with four days of chilled rain. # Finn and friends learning longsword at Academie Duello. # Syllable. Grey. Warm. Dry. # The view from my office this wet afternoon. http://yfrog.com/h3572bj # It is a beautiful …
Other than blogging, probably the first social networking site I used was delicio.us. When it was launched I was in my traditional “second-to-early adopter” position and I relished it. Now with news that Yahoo is going to shut down the social bookmarking site, I’ve decided to let it go. I’ve downloaded all of my bookmarks in one html page and stored it in Evernote, which is the program I use for note taking. If you are interested in having a look at my archive, click the “Currently Reading” link on the right or, if you view my blog in a …
A continuation of my exploration of the past six months. The goddess who consumes all exhausts herself I myself have witnessed the esoteric language of one under the influence of the goddess This state is profound The release intense — Taupouri Tangoro Lele Kawa: Fire rituals of Pele The smoke and steam of Kilauea rise from a crater held within a vast caldera many miles across. You can approach the rim of this caldera in various places and see the crater containing lava a few hundred yards away. At night, the steam and smoke glows from the …