The vacation in Hawaii has ended for me and I’m now somewhere over the middle of the United States on the third leg of a four leg journey that sees me flying from Hilo to Honolulu to Los Angeles to New York to Johannesburg. I arrive in South Africa Monday morning in time to recover and help design and deliver and Art of Participatory Leadership workshop with friends from REOS Social Innovation. It’s exciting to be heading to South Africa, the birthplace of my wife, and therefore one of the ancestral homelands of my kids. Exciting to be working with …
A quick break from being unplugged to point you to my friend John Engle’s blog from Haiti. John is an Open Space colleague who I have known for nearly ten years now. He is in Haiti, where he lives with his family, assessing damage and needs for Haiti Partners, the NGO he works for. Here is his blog. Consider donating to his work.
Off to a warmer place for a couple of weeks to unplug and soak in sun and waves and some ono ki ho’alu. Here is Ledward Kaapana for your edification while I am gone.
Snows cover the British Isles.
Goodness: Links Heather Haley, friend and neighbour, extends a conversation some of us were having on west coast music. Nice stories about the west coast punk scene of the 1980s and later. Another friend and neighbour, John Dowler: a photography site with questions. From Common Dreams, 12 things from the last decade that could save us Metafilter post on the ironically inimitable Harry Dubin. Franke James draws Canada’s problems with greenhouse gases. (via facebook friend Amy Robinson) Audio Frozen Silence, a new age/ambient project from Finland’s Matti Paalanen. Piano and guitar music for winter mornings. Tim Hart singing the Ploughboy …