Folks, I need some advice, and I feel a little sheepish, not wanting this to turn into some kind of cheesy vanity post. I’ve been invited to participate in the 100bloggers book project, and I’ve scoured my archives for what I think have been the most interesting posts. I count them this way largely because of the comments I have received on them. I have settled on eight posts and I’d be most grateful, if you are so inclined, for your advice on which to include. So here they are: Blogging as dreaming Creation stories Process and results Living in …
Prince George, BC Peter Lindberg blogs Elliot Eisner’s types of creativity:/eisner Boundary Pushing (the rules are too constraining) Inventing (bring things together in a new way) Boundary Breaking (the rules are the problem) Aesthetic Organizing (order and beauty from chaos) Over the past couple of days I have been working here in Prince George conducting a 1.5 day Open Space meeting with literally hundreds of people from the Prince George urban Aboriginal community. We have had upwards of 275 people coming and going over two days and all four of these forms of creativity have shown up. The theme of …
The other night I was joined by a couple of old friends of mine – Randy Vic and Dave Marshall – and together we played jigs and reels for a room full of contradancers here on Bowen Island. I have played with these guys for coming on ten years now and we know each other so well that we hardly need to speak to one another when we’re playing. Tune names are called out with a couple of syllables – “priest” for The Musical Priest, “dingle” for the Humours of Dingle – and we manage to switch tunes or end …
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Dan Oestreich: Leadership to me is a kind of revolution of the soul. An incessant revolt that favors knowing at the deepest levels who I am and who we are (Self, not just self), what the tasks in this lifetime are, what the potentials for contribution are, and how we can touch, connect, and serve in whatever small ways a positive evolution of the world and of consciousness itself. An unfolding of spirit that simply cannot be contained. Havel called it living in truth, Gandhi called it satyagraha, Oestreich calls it the unfolding that cannot be contained.