I am leaving for another extended roadt trip for a week in northern British Columbia, so blogging will once again become light. Before I go, I’ll leave you with this, which came by way of Beliefnet.com: There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? — “The Practice of Meditation” Zen Master Dogen From Teachings of the Buddha edited by Jack Kornfield, 1993. Right …
Meanwhile, in Port au Prince, Haiti, my friend John Engle blogs about the unrest there: I was in Haiti during the coup d’etat in 1991 when an estimated 500 civilians were killed in one day in Port au Prince. The horrific violence that U.S. viewers might be seeing on the television is about a three to four hour drive away from Port au Prince. While the rebels are threatening to come to the capital, we don’t anticipate this anytime soon. The conflict is incredibly complex. The rebels for the most part, are baddies. In my opinion, Aristide and his regime …
I have the best readers in the world. And in this case, I’m very lucky to count David Stevenson among my favourite clients and friends as well. Look what he left me on the subject of objective colonization of subjectivity: Good words Chris. I have been thinking about your word for a couple of days. I want to response, with entheos. Subjectivity and subjective truth is in some ways a late arrival, therefore so too is inter subjectivity, these in themselves are fictions, myths we live by. The task of the “cultural creative” (pardon the buzz word) is a sort …
The world has lost a fine young fiddler. Danny O’Connell, from Ottawa, left us too young and too suddenly and with only one CD to his name. I had the pleasure of playing with him last year in a magical session in Ottawa at the Celtic Cross pub on Elgin Street, and boy, was he going places. You can here a very short clip of his playing here or go to the Ottawa Folklore Centre website and see if they can ship you a copy of his album Green Fields of the Valley. My condolences to his friends and family.
On the OSLIST, the list for Open Space Technology practitioners, a conversation about using Open Space Technology as part of the design charette process elicited this story from Zelle Nelson in North Carolina: My experience with Open Space and an architect/design project is actually from a project I worked on with BP in Scotland. The 60 person business unit I was working with was moving from one part of the building complex to another (most would agree the space they were moving into was the worst space in the building). I started with an Open Space Visioning meeting where in …