From a conversation with Tenneson this morning, we were playing with a pattern of shifting systems that flows from skilfully hosted conversations. A simple pattern emerged, which is about bringing people together, shifting power and developing and hosting emerging beauty. In a linear form it goes like this: Gather people together from wholeness, including inviting the deeply personal into the work. Understand and work with a willingness to shift power. Cultivate curiosity: what could we really do together? Harvest what our Navajo friends call “the beauty way” a way forward that serves life and keeps people engaged in …
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A great quote from a fun article on knuckleballers: “Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor’s mailbox” – Willie Stargill.
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Two good friends of mine, Roq Gareau who works for the Canadian Border Services Agency and Orlando Pioche who works for the Indian Health Service in Shiprock, NM. Men doing serious work who work together as deep friends. From Wendel Berry: Good work finds the way between pride and despair. It graces with health. It heals with grace. It preserves the given so that it remains a gift. By it, we lose loneliness: we clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other’s …
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A bench at Killarney Lake near my home on Bowen Island Recent cool stuff Pulse: a book on the coming age of machines inspired by living systems. The whole book is being published by RSS. The Evolutionary LIfe Newsletter. March edition. Life with Thomas: a two part video about sustainable living at the Dancing Rabbit ecovillage. World cafe image bank. Good quote from Viv: ““Knowledge is knowing you’re on a one-way street; wisdom is looking both ways anyway.” Why I let my 9 year old ride the subway alone. On fostering independence in children and bucking the American climate of …
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My friend Roq and my son Finn, learning from one another Over my entire life, I have been incredibly blessed to work with amazing people. Being a curious person by nature, I have come to appreciate that there are teachers everywhere, if only we have the ears and the open heart to listen and experience another’s life as a teaching. One of the reasons for starting this blog in 2002 was to capture what I was learning as I travelled through the world. I’m thinking a little about slipping some of this stuff between the covers of a book at …