This is what is truly close to my heart. Spending an hour or two in the bushes picking salmonberries with my partner and kids. This is a big piece of what it means for me to touch down on earth, have my heart rest in its natural space, stewarding the land and the bodies of the ones I love the most.
Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft – Social Design for the Web A simple introduction to wikis, this nicely captures the essential process of working on a collaborative document. (tags: collaboration howto learning reference wiki training video tools social tutorial Web2.0 wikis Technology) YouTube – Women In Art From my friend notio comes a beautiful video of the changing face of women in western art (tags: art history video women)
Some notes and stuff from my trips around the web: Passion bounded by responsibility is one of the tenets of Open Space. To see how powerful this is in action, you should go and visit WikiClock. Very simply, it’s a clock that shows the current time if you update it to do so. It’s a ridiculous notion, until you realize that it actually works. And if you still don’t know what a wiki is, Viv McWaters has come across a video that might help you understand it a lot better. Jack Ricchiuto has discovered something about appreciative leadership in Aboriginal …
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(I’m posting this a day or two later than when I wrote it) London, UK I’m in London now, moving around with with Johnnie Moore and Euan Semple, Richard Oliver,Tanya and Kevin McLean, and Steve Moore seeing some plays, talking about our work and what it all means… …and I have nearly lost my voice. I’m quite intrigued actually with the fact that I am suffering from laryngitis. It was caused by an unholy scream I issued on day three of our gathering in Belgium, as I came into some quite strong and profound as a response to the invitation …