I’m sitting in the Vancouver airport killing time before a flight out to Edmonton. \u00a0 I spent last night at home, which was a surprising novelty.<\/p>\n
I have been on Whidbey Island most of last week delivering another workshop on The Art of Hosting Conversations that matter – more on that soon. \u00a0 Yesterday I was due to fly from Seattle to Calgary and then on to Regina where I am spending three days doing work to support the Urban Aboriginal Strategy<\/a> there. \u00a0 Two of those days (today and tomorrow) were to be a two day hosting workshop and Thursday I am opening space for a large community meeting aimed at revitalizing the process. \u00a0 Following that, I have to fly back to Seattle for a day of work withthe Quinault Indian Nation and then home on Saturday for a week. So, I lucked out by being stranded in Vancouver. \u00a0 I went home and enjoyed a nice unexpected evening with the family. \u00a0 When I woke up this morning, we had ten centimeters of snow on the ground and I was seriously doubting whether I would be able to leave Vancouver.<\/p>\n It’s now midafternoon, I’m checked in and everything seems clear on my evening flight to Edmonton and then to Regina. \u00a0 I get in at midnight. \u00a0 The weather should be warming up significanlty while I’m there. \u00a0 They are expecting highs of -31 tomorrow. \u00a0 Thursday should be a balmy -15.<\/p>\n If my flesh doesn’t freeze solid, I’ll be back to Seattle Friday and then home Saturday for a bit of a rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m sitting in the Vancouver airport killing time before a flight out to Edmonton. \u00a0 I spent last night at home, which was a surprising novelty. I have been on Whidbey Island most of last week delivering another workshop on The Art of Hosting Conversations that matter – more on that soon. \u00a0 Yesterday I was due to fly from Seattle to Calgary and then on to Regina where I am spending three days doing work to support the Urban Aboriginal Strategy there. \u00a0 Two of those days (today and tomorrow) were to be a two day hosting workshop and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-lt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTravel was complicated by a blizzard that swept across the \u00a0 prairies yesterday bringin temperatures in the low -40s to Regina and Calgary. \u00a0 When I checked in in Seattle, I discovered that my flight to Calgary had been cancelled, so they routed me through Vancouver. \u00a0 When I got here, the flight to Regina was cancelled in the face of a raging blizzard and windchills that dropped the temperature to -53<\/a>. \u00a0 I can’t even conceive of air that cold. \u00a0 You’d think it would just drop out of the atmosphere and pool around your feet.<\/p>\n