Back to the weekly collection of interesting finds: Rob Paterson fins cool stuff on the new shape of non profit boards. Viv McWaters on how she decides to say yes to a job. Rolling Stone on Wall Street’s trickery. Harper’s on the junior hockey life in Flin Flon, late 1990s. No gold medal glamour there. New York Times on the sound of a close finish at the Olympics You Tube: a stunning clip of a high tension power line worker. Stunning
On the stepe of the Chugach Mountains north of Anchorage. I’m still trying to figure out Alaska. When i was here in 2002 I was up in Fairbanks, working largely with non-Native people doing peacemaking work in the school system. Fairbanks struck me as an interesting place, one in which you defintely had to have a deep intention to live in. I enjoyed the people and the land – which is incredible – and I liked the feel of the town, which in all of its glory and ugliness, felt like northern towns everywhere. Anchorage is a different beast. There …
Jutta Weimar’s New Video: “Open Space – The Power of Self-Organization”.
A short poem from Edwin Markham, called “Outwitted”: He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. Hat tip to my friend Janie Leask in Alaska, who posted this on her facebook wall.