Just around the corner from where I live is The Herbal Path, a Chinese health and medicine shop. Yesterday, I was looking at some of the diagrams they have pasted in their store window. Those diagrams illustrated the meridians in our bodies, the rivers of energy within our body, the Qi (pronounced “chee”) flow. […]
Go With Your Heart: Create Justice Solutions the Open-Source Way
We love our media. Take away our media? No way. Alas, more media leads to both more ideas, and more arguing and conflict. And, all that arguing can get pretty chaotic. So if you’re in a position of influence for creating justice solutions, how do you address all that complexity and chaos? Go with your […]
The Dynamic Duo: Collaboration and Chance
You know, collaboration as a good news story. The real success stories of our time are about good collaboration: businesses, sports teams, political campaigns, causes… 1 + 1 > 2. And yet, sometimes good collaboration isn’t enough for success. Sometimes you need chance on your side. Think of Felix Baumgartner’s past weekend of incredibleness, that […]
Bruce Saunders and Movie Monday: Bringing Community to my Neighbourhood
Watching a movie can be so much more. I’m a huge fan of Bruce Saunders weekly Movie Monday showing at the Eric Martin Pavilion Theatre, here in Victoria. I’m a fan not just because of the movies shown at Eric Martin, though they tend to rock. It’s a community event, where neighbours and nearby citizens […]