We’ve explored very interesting, extremely challenging conversations using amazing tools, related to climate change and what we are to do about it. But the most engaging and mind blowing of all conversations was in a small circle, with the right people, sharing in an intimate and trustful environment, our dreams and expectations of this journey, sharing stories (Oh! The power of stories); and preparing ourselves, yet once again, this time as a collective, on what awaits us, an experience which will significantly have an impact in all of us as individuals, in our collective consciousness. And while connecting with words such as generosity, love, wisdom, and native ancestral knowledge, possibility is what emerges.

Via BP.

Citizens and political representatives on my home island of Bowen Island, at a meeting this week in which a controversial decision was made to build an artifical turf playing field at our community school.   I didn’t run this meeting…it was a regular council meeting, but the one in which the decision was made.   The soundtrack is something of a political statement from the videographer, but the images are beautiful.   They show my friends and neighbours as they sit pitted against one another in a tense meeting over a deep quality of life issue.   Just studying and watching these faces reminds me of how hard this work really is sometimes, to tough through difficult choices and live out your principles and dreams.