I want to draw your attention to a community Open Space unfolding today and tomorrow in Oftringen, Germany and posted online in real-ish time. I’m back from the Practice of Peace conference on Whidbey Island which featured Harrison Owen and friends and colleagues opening space for peace around the world. Have a read of the proceedings at the conference website. And lastly I have spent the last two days in Open Space at a forum for Emerging Aboriginal Leaders. The procee4dings from that conference will be posted at the openspaceworld.net wiki site in the next few days. Phew.
I’m on the road for a few days. In the meantime, dig a few poems from Sherman Alexie, whose home state I am visiting: Defending Walt Whitman Basketball is like this for young Indian boys, all arms and legs and serious stomach muscles. Every body is brown! These are the twentieth-century warriors who will never kill, although a few sat quietly in the deserts of Kuwait, waiting for orders to do something, to do something. God, there is nothing as beautiful as a jumpshot on a reservation summer basketball court where the ball is moist with sweat, and makes a …
There is something otherwordly about the National Rifle Association sponsoring Postal Matches. Upon first seeing the link at the NRA website (don’t ask…) I thought it had something to do with post-office shootings. Guess not.
A skywriter creates a Korean flag at the 2003 Korea Air Show Photo from the Globe and Mail I am struck by the notion of a Yin-Yang symbol suspended in air created at an airshow that exists mostly to sell military hardware.