- The beautiful after the storm. Thin winter sunset outside my window. http://yfrog.com/h4wzjylj #
- I am increasingly suspicious that we aren't going to have much of a real Canadian winter here on BCs south coastal islands. #
- Last night's near full moon brushed the forest with hoarfrost. #
- How to say Thank You in Skwxw7mesh (and why): http://squamishlanguage.com/blog/thankyou/ Chen kw'mantumi @DustinRivers #
- Unexpected wet snow in the morning almost always combines delight with a little chaos. #
- The sound of water is everywhere this dark morning. Falling from the sky, trickling from melting snowbanks and churning on the windy sea. #
- 15 minutes to breathe and welcome participants to a full day #openspace on non-profit housing in British Columbia. #
- Here is a new job title i heard today: Chief encouragement officer of a non-profit housing org. #
- Sweet #openspace today. Initial skepticism (are we going to do therapy? Sing kumbaya?) replaced with deep engaged conversation. Surprise! #
- Most hotels in Canada do not serve tea whose quality befits a Commonwealth member. (not that the UK is different!). Still, standards! #
- Thoreau on walking: "What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?" @prawsthorne #
- At BICS right now setting up for the National Park #openspace Come help us if you can. We start at 130 but setting up now. #
My poor Barmah hat has failed. A nasty hole has opened up at the seam and my trusty rain hat, my portable shelter for four years or so now has given up the ghost.
So today searching for hope through the route of repair, I contacted Barmah’s Canadian representative, Brian Smith, who resides not far from me on the Sunshine Coast, on the west side of our inlet. I sent him the picture and he commiserated and we agreed that at times entropy has to have its way. But for being a good sport he offered me a replacement hat at a very good price, which I was happy to take him up on. In the ensuing conversation we discovered a mutual friend.
So a new hat is on its way and my head will be dry and warm for the remainder of the winter and I’m left with a nice feeling of being treated well. Thanks Brian!
- http://m.flickr.com/photos/chriscorrigan/5337858333/ rock balancing today at Joshua Tree National Park in California. #
- http://Www.sushikinghouse.com. Biggest sushi in Vancouver. Geez. Ever big too. #
- Join us for the Art of Hosting the Standing Wave…a special #aoh for young leaders: http://aohyouthvancouver.withtank.com/ nr Vancouver BC. #
- A sharp north wind this morning. Old ferry on the Sound. Headed to Calgary for an Art of Hosting. #
- -22 on a cold clear morning by the shores of the Elbow River. http://yfrog.com/gzp9dsj #
- Need a quick ning-like web solution for a half day #openspace to harvest group notes. Suggestions? Or just use ning? #
- A liitle brisk in Calgary this morning. With the windchill it feels like -38. #aohcalgary #
- Resting after our #aohcalgary with a beer and a brilliant dinner at The Coup. http://thecoup.ca/i/#home #
- Standing on the Horseshoe Bay government dock in a warm strong wind waiting for the water taxi home. Moon lurking behind scudding cloud. #
- Night out with Sarah Harmer at the Commodore. Yum! #
Have you seen these doodle games from Vi Harte? Brilliant games to play with math. Or perhaps games to play that demonstrate how math works. This one is my favourite, but you might also enjoy Stars, Infinity Elephants or Binary Trees, among others.
[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 and some of it will draw on ways we haven’t yet discovered. But it will depend on “ways.”
Ways are roads. We travel some of these lineages now and we start new ones all the time. While I was in Los Angeles, I was struck by the evolution of the road system. Some of it is based on very old paths, such as Wilshire Boulevard, which began life as a path cleared through a barley field and gave rise to a fundamental archetype of automobile based commercial space, the Miracle Mile. Henry Wilshire had no idea that his cut through a field would create such a pattern. His pathway far pre-dated the technology that would find its highest expression there.
In creating the unprecedented ways of our future, we need to be attentive to what we are doing but not assume that any great stroke will create the roadway of the future. If a path through a field is needed, cut the path. And see what happens. Many paths die away, but the odd one or two becomes a powerful way when the time is right.