So my faithful reader(s)…on a small blog hiatus because frankly I’ve been busier than ever and somehow unable to write about it all. STarting tomorrow, for the next six weeks, I’m in New York, Kingston, Ont., Calgary, Campbell River and Halifax. I have about five days at home between now and the end of June. The good news is that my 30 day learning project has come to an end, with some really cool learning, which I’ll write about, and my garden is blooming nicely which means that the few days I’ve been at home have been spent …
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On my way home now from Phoenix, from a gathering that was remarkable on many levels. It will continue to resonate for months and years to come. Truly, it was a lifetime kind of experience. One small note: in the shuttle on the way to the airport a few of us were talking about what will happen when the world truly starts to unshrink. When airline travel becomes prohibitive and fuel costs make transporting goods too expensive, the world will begin to unshrink, find its real size again. And in that moment, I had a strong image of the world …
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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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Robert Paterson is musing about The Power of One. Seems his website will record 1,000,000 hits this summer. When he started blogging he had no idea that within five years, a million people would have hit the site. So I posted a question in his comments, and I extend it to you. If you knew that in five years 1 million people would read what you have written, what would you do with that opportunity? It might come as a surprise to some, but greatness is not predetermined. Great ideas do not emerge fully hatched, marketable and readily consumed by …
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The situation in Zimbabwe being what it is, it’s often hard to see beyond the headlines and the punditry that tells how how we should feel. But of course, in this connected world, we live in a field of relationships that descends deep into every story on our planet. I have friends in Zimbabwe, and from that network of hosts and courageous leaders comes this email: Standing in Silence under a New Moon Sunday 6th April 2008 7 days ago we voted for change in our country. Against the legal imperative to call an election foul within 48 hours of …