I left a message for my ‘foil’ at The Region of Waterloo after attending a session where he referenced a cyclical methodology.  We have developed this very strange relationship wherein he recognizes our good work, but agonizes over how to translate it into data points.  I love the tension and keep poking at it.  My […]

What a beautiful read… Jean Vanier is a brilliant and humble person who has dedicated much of his life to the fulsome and loving care of people with intellectual disabilities through real relationship.  Vanier is the founder of L’Arche: an international network of more than 100 communities in 30 countries. We watched this film last […]

Charles Taylor sets up the world in which we live as one beset by three malaises: An age of narcissism – people are by and large narcissistic and self absorbed. We couch this in the language of individualism, but what we are really talking about is soft-relativism and extreme subjectivity. The primacy of instrumental reasoning: […]

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Are people planning to attend or participate in Sing Fires today? I will, sadly, not be able to attend because I will be – not so sadly – at the MOD Club taking in the dulcet tones of The Weather Station. Because Sing Fires is honouring The Earth Charter and directing funds toward The Working […]

In light of our discussion of Ethical Space last night, here is a little bit on Reciprocity. These ideas are linked. I will add more to this thread as thoughts develop, but I would be interested to hear if people agree that these two concepts are indeed amenable to one another. Ken Westhhues describes reciprocity […]

My name is Nathan Thomas Stretch.  “Nathan” – as my mother recently reaffirmed – for the unpopular prophet of the Old Testament (on a related note – and for possible future expansion – I. Know. So. Many. Davids).  “Thomas” for my opa whose Frisian name “Tinus” (say it out loud to yourself) was almost immediately […]