Creative Impulses
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.Art, poetry, music inspire me profoundly. I learn, I express, I engage, I wonder, I experience, I create, I design….
Linda Naiman, who i met fifteen years ago has been a wonderful inspiration. http://www.creativityatwork.com
A Sense of Place…Art, Ecology and Community
Viewpoint! This week work with community leaders in Guelph reminded me of my deep commitment to art, the natural world and culture as a source of belonging...vital to this city at the core of its unique identity. It's The Soul of Place, "our relationship with place...
Sharing our Stories
It's a time of shift and change, personally and globally. And in the midst of the turmoil and uncertainty, it matters more than ever that we connect - that we share our stories, stories that open our hearts, express our deepest longings and presence what matters most....
Place – what does it mean?
What is 'PLACE'? I sense a profound 'quest' within this question, which I want to explore here in the next few weeks and months. Some of my inquiry will focus on: what is my place? in my relationships, my family, my...
Being and becoming – paradoxes of leading and community
I've shared this blog posting https://norabateson.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/leadership-within-the-paradox-of-agency many times and in many places as it captures elegantly so much of the bullshit of popular media and cultural commentary about the challenges and urgency...
Seeing Patterns…
i often notice patterns. Today, walking the beach in Newport Oregon, I noticed both the big and the small, the near and the far - depending on where I was looking - my perspective. As it is with life in all it's forms, sometimes we see the interconnections at a...
Beachglass…..on the edge
I live here, 4 blocks from this beach on Dallas Road and so I am reminded daily of living on the edge [at many levels]. And I've been thinking about edges in many contexts...and how I 'walk' along the edge. Here are some musings: I often make a choice to go to the...
At the Edge of Inside
The New York Times opinion page, AT THE EDGE OF INSIDE, by David Brooks, in June 2016, resonates so profoundly with me. I live at the edge! I'm involved and part of a number of organizations and initiatives, but I'm not often at the core. And it's a unique...
We don’t know the water we are swimming in? Or do we?
Fish don’t know they are in water. Similarly, we human beings do not often consciously distinguish ourselves as social beings in relation to the cultures and environments of which we are a part. Yet the complexity shapes and frames our worldviews. In the past year, I...
Back to the World
It's Spring, a time for reawakening, the return of colour, growth and beginnings. I'm launching this website as my expression of coming 'back to the world'. My 'world' is, a hub of relationship and connection, grounded in collaboration, dialogue and service. In the...