Friends who fed me this week: Ashley Cooper on a piece by Parker palmer on teaching with heart and soul. Rob Bailey writes the owner’s manual on the coconut. Tenneson Woolf uses Wordle to produce a harvest whiskey river on the emotional mechanics of inspiration Mark Woods celebrates Edward Abbey’s passing with some excerpts from his work and meditations on deserts Peter Rukavina‘s unorthodox diary of his day without digital technology. Peter Rawsthorne on the ways we are shaping citizen eGovernment on Bowen Island.
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This is Peter Reinhart, a master baker, a theologian and a story teller who has written a great book on baking called The Baker’s Apprentice. In this talk he discusses the science of baking, but puts it in the context of the meaning of bread as an act of transformation from living components to new forms. Reinhart speaks from the four levels of the literal, metaphoric/poetic, political/ethical and mystical level. As a novice bread baker, I have to say that my exploration of the literal level is just beginning, and although I make some pretty good breads now, this dive …
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After being registered for a year and using it actively for a few months I now get twitter. Two recent uses have twigged me to twitter’s terrificness. This month when the roads on Bowen Island were slippery and dangerous a group of us worked over twitter to create a road status tool that uses crowdsourcing to report on road conditions on our island. Road conditions are incredibly variable depending on the altitude of the road (from sea level to 500 feet and more) and so it’s not enough to say “Grafton Road is clear” because it might be snowchoked up …
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Back from Maui and here are the things that you need to know about that amazing island. This was our fourth trip there and we’re very much in the flow of Maui as an almost second home. If there was a theme to this trip it was LOCAL. We stayed close to our living quarters for the most part, ate local food, consumed local media and tapped in to local issues. When we are in Maui we rent a little condo at a place called Hale Kamaole, which is an older condo complex in Kihei on the sunny …
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Stuff people threw my way: Brad Ovenell Carter has been using Webspiration. It works for me in Chrome but not Firefox… Mark Brady on when times will get good again. Dervala Hanley, whose taste I trust absolutely, posts her favourite books and music from last year. My own Bowen Island Journal has a new home See you all in a couple of weeks.