This week in the feed: Rob Paterson concludes his harvest of the Boyd Conference on a pessimistic yet exhuberant note. Staffordshire Oat Cakes and Easy No Knead Bread Brad Ovenell-Carter’s medieval teaching methods. Michael Herman distills work he and I did for a few years into a poem and an offering. Steve Moore tweets a great story of mutual aid
Please…hotel and catering companies of the world, please stop serving melon slices when what you are trying to serve is “fruit plates.” I spend huge amounts of my life eating catered food. Most of the food that is served at meetings, while it may be prepared with varying degrees of care (and let’s be honest, most of that is minimal) it is certainly grown on an industrial scale. In the last ten years there has been a trend away from serving pastries for breakfast and more towards serving a selection of fruit. While this seems like a good …
Back in June, I hosted the Open Space part of a conference on reconciliation policy and practice co-sponsored by Queens University, the First Nations Technical Institute and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The harvest from that gathering is now online as an article about the event in Canadian Government Executive Magazine It makes for some interesting reading.
It is snowing heavily here in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and most people are doing what people here do when it snows like this – staring at it, making comments to each other and abandoning their plans for getting home on time. Heavy snow here can bring out irritation and anger, but today I have been struck by how beautiful people look. There is a lot of smiling and laughing and radiance today. Dunno why it seems that way, but I like it. I’m falling deeply in like with everyone I meet this afternoon! …
Thinking these days about home. Last week I was in Prince George working with people who are establishing an Aboriginal school in that city. I went from there to working with coaches who support Jewish day schools in the United States and Canada. In both places I felt at home, among people who lived out of a deep worldview, an ancient language and culture and way of life that included spirituality (but not religion per se). In each case we began with prayers and teachings – from a Lhedli T’enneh Elder in Prince George and in Boston …