Languid crepuscular morning. The sky is barely stirring. Ravens scream for summer. # Spent an hour pitting cherries, up to my wrists in juice, midwifing little seeds. # Train yourself only to see relationships. This zephyr, that flock of juncos, the thick cool air of morning. All connected. # Dedicate yourself to something if only to find out what you need to clear in yourself so you can be fully present with the world. # Well done Netherlands! # Perfect Bowen summer evening. Good friends BBQ salmon, a swim in the sea and sleeping outside in the warn still air. …
Back to some regular noticing: An Indian MP calls for a 21st century residential school policy. Appalling. Johnnie Moore finds research that vindicates my approach of having questions rather than goals. Metafilter post on desire lines.
Or so says the police officer about 3:50 minutes into this video. Wow. If that is true, then York Regional Police officer 815 was acting out of his jurisdiction and was therefore simply a bully. With a sidearm. Think about that. There are dozens and dozens of stories like this coming out of the G20. Only a public inquiry will get to the bottom of that, and it needs to result in some clear guidelines for how police enforce laws within the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, even when there are special circumstances. Since 9/11 politicians …
There is never a time when we are not a participant in this world. Our mere presence in any place makes us a participant. So rule number one is “there is no outside.” In fact I think the very idea that we can somehow be separate from what is going on around is is actually a delusion and it causes great problems. It blinds us to our own influence in a field and it actually hides our own gifts and brilliance and denies them from being used as people find their way. In most indigenous cultures work with, there is …
Dave Pollard has posted an item on his blog entitled G20: A Corporatist Show of Force and Power in Toronto. It is a compendium of a number of videos showing what happened in Toronto last week. I have spent the last two hours watching these videos, and many more. I challenge you to do the same. Because frankly what I am seeing is terrifying and shocking, and I don’t mean the vandals. I mean the actions of the police. None of these videos are the whole story, but they leave me futilely hoping for an explanation from the powers that …