From the Parking Lot

Here is my monthly summary of some interesting finds from around the web from November and posted on my Mastodon page.

• November 1 was All Souls Day. What does that mean now? 
• Christine Sinclair, the greatest international goal scorer in world football, played her last regular season game for the Portland Thorns tonight. Needing a win to clinch a playoff spot, she did the deed for her club team, scoring the opening goal. Watch these highlights and listen to the sheer noise with every Thorns entry to the box. The passion and love for these players – for this player – is astounding.
• Cory Doctorow on the inevitable enshittification of Bluesky and why only Mastodon is worthy of social investment. 
• Listen to Esperanza Spalding and Robert Glasper: Didn’t Find Nothing in my Blues Song Blues 
• My friend Sarah Jane Scouten, a fellow Bowen Islander, has released a new album of her songs called Transmutations. 
• A really good analysis of where Conservatism is going in the UK which makes me think about what might happen here if the Conservatives are elected. 
• Indigenous tribes engineered British Columbia’s modern hazelnut forests more than 7000 years ago.
• I use a little ritual for closing workshops that comes from the Soweto Mountain of Hope in South Africa. It is a simple set of nine claps that honors ourselves, our communities, and our work in the world. 
• Chelsey Vowel has updated her excellent 2016 article on territorial acknowledgements. 
• Canada’s first-ever supporter-owned soccer club – my club – TSS Rovers is offering shares again! Join us in investing in the future of Canadian soccer.  And read Corey Almond’s terrific piece on our endeavour 
• A beautiful podcast that tracks the experience of being hosted by The Circle, a national organization in Canada that is transforming philanthropy. 
• A Firsthand Account of What Homelessness in America Is Really Like. 
• A Matt Webb contemplation on list songs and endings. 
• Why did Swannanoa become Helene’s ‘ground zero’? Deadly combination of topography, development and a tidal wave of water.