Sometime about 30 years ago, maybe more, I had a dream, just a fragment, which I still remember vividly.There was a tiger in a coal mine,and it was trapped down there by a manic and harsh master,dressed like a circus lion tamer;skinny man in black coattails, a top hat, with a stick.That was it.Never forgot […]
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Download a PDF The way up is the way down.* Out at the edge of the worldtectonic plates,continental shelves,are cataclysmically shifting;colliding,grinding together,crushing and buckling and crumpling,breakingthe surface of the earthopenforcing whole oceans of stoneupwards into the sky,and downinto the sea of magma below,bursting forth in flaming lava conflagrations,mountainous volcanoes. The way up is the way
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The relationship of trust and power is complicated. We all so deeply desire to be able to fully trust someone, something, some people. But, unfortunately, it’s precisely where our desires are greatest, our needs most unmet, that we are vulnerable to manipulation and, in fact, become manipulative ourselves. ‘Trust’ can be a lever worked by con artists for ‘power’. Ultimately, it’s only by learning to trust ourselves that we can become fully capable of discerning not just who to trust, but how much to trust.
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‘Route, Rig & Reel’ are three very simple words representing three approaches to identity.
They are three ways of responding to the question, ‘Who are you?’.
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Fascinating and provocative explorations of the question ‘Where are you going?’ ‘rooted’ in the question ‘Who are you?’.
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In reaction to my deep dismay at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I remembered a song I wrote a while back called ‘Truth is a Refugee’, about wars, and truth. Just piano and vox. And I did my very best to bring it back, and made a recording on Saturday (special thanks to rj fleck for
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An Ode to Incarnation I’m the ephemeral union the temporal assembly the passing coherence the momentary encounter the transient intersection the makeshift collaboration of a trillion organismscomprising a billion universes. I’m a ball briefly burning brilliantly a comet a candle to kindling an also ran flash in the panwhose dwindling gravitational fieldand centripetal forceis devolving
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View ‘Maintaining Poise in the Uncertainty of Complexity’ Workshop description POISE to be balanced or suspended; to be ready, a state of readiness; equally weighted, weight bearing, good ‘bearing’. A migratory translibrium. ComplexityStructural complexity vs/and Perceptual complexityI’m approaching complexity as an ‘experience’ we have, rather than an ‘objective phenomena out-there’.“Complex systems are defined by entangled
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This workshop debuted at Australasian Change Days in Sept 2021. — Complexity is one attribute of the renowned fearsome foursome of VUCA, and it alone can easily generate the other three: volatility, uncertainty and ambiguity. Typically we have a deep desire to find a single solution to a problem, an answer we can ‘take to
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Yesterday evening I attended my course on Pollinator Stewardship (which I’m attending as part of a grant to create an educational pollinator garden through PollinateTO, Project Swallowtail, LiveGreen & the City of Toronto) (check out our garden here!). This week was focused on the perspective of Indigenous peoples on pollinators which was pretty fabulous. Some
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