Tasty morsels from the syndicated grapevines:
- Thomas Arthur shares a beautiful reflection on his place and time.
- Myriam Laberge with some excellent tips for improving information delivery in conferences. For best results combine it with an insanely good slideshow.
- Jordon Cooper has a nuanced take on big business and the environment.
- Also from Jordon, Life’s pictures of the year.
- Tom Atlee on Open Source Religion.
- Worldchanging reports on young people using Google Wave to negotiate what the adults should be doing at Cop15
About to begin the three day Art of Hosting training here on the shores of Clayoquot Sound. THis rock was my offering of balance to the land and the sea.
Returning to sit in the stream
- Tenneson Woolf makes a nice meta-harvest of what we have been doing over the years with the Art of Hosting workshops we’ve been teaching.
- Tom Atlee has released his new book: REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY ACTIVISM: Essays, poems and prayers from an emerging field of sacred social change”
- Johnnie Moore finds the circle of life in stunning visual clarity.
- JS Bouchard posts a great design for short and small collaborative meetings.
- The Symphony of Science
Natalie Angier, inspired by Kandinsky, celebrates the circle,
I also learned of Kandinsky’s growing love affair with the circle. The circle, he wrote, is “the most modest form, but asserts itself unconditionally.” It is “simultaneously stable and unstable,” “loud and soft,” “a single tension that carries countless tensions within it.” Kandinsky loved the circle so much that it finally supplanted in his visual imagination the primacy long claimed by an emblem of his Russian boyhood, the horse.
Quirkily enough, the artist’s life followed a circular form: He was born in December 1866, and he died the same month in 1944. This being December, I’d like to honor Kandinsky through his favorite geometry, by celebrating the circle and giving a cheer for the sphere. Life as we know it must be lived in the round, and the natural world abounds in circular objects at every scale we can scan.
Twenty years on, and I still remember them.
- Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
- Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
- Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
- Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967) mechanical engineering student.
- Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
- Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
- Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique’s finance department.
- Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
- Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
- Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
- Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
- Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
- Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
- Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.
The work is never done.