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Chris Corrigan, who wrote about the practice of sleeping outside, lives on Bowen Island, British Columbia. Chris is a process artist, and a facilitator of social technologies for face to face conversation in the service of emergence. His business is supporting invitation: the invitation to collaborate, to organize, to find one another and make a [...]
This blog was originally posted on December 2, 2007 as ‘Sharing the Stove’. This is a slight revision for an interfaith dialogue synchroblog. Please check out the other (and some of them are ‘The Sacred Other’!) submissions for this new synchroblog: J. R. Miller (Christian) of More Than Cake on A Christian Approach to Interfaith [...]
I don’t believe in coincidence. I don’t believe in serendipity. I do believe in synchronicity. The difference? The first term is random. The second term is whimsical. The third makes me want to view the tapestry from the front side instead of always from the knotty, messy back. flickr photo: Today is a good day [...]
Chris’ sleeping porch Here’s a post you may enjoy on Chris Corrigan’s blog about the practice of sleeping outside. The post is about the absolute joys of connecting to the ‘real’ world by sleeping outside every chance we get. Quote: “My house faces southeast, so I know which planets are up, when the dawn is [...]
flickr photo: cattycamehome are the dastardly crabapples bouncing on the courtyard bricks really karma for those glorious ten days in April? flickr photo: tingy wende Entry to TOP (Totally Optional Prompts) prompt: Revisitation What is Totally Optional Prompts? It is a community of people who gather to share poetry. We provide weekly prompts which are [...]
Love him or hate him, Michael Moore is a force to be reckoned with, a Gadfly with a capital G. His newest release is available as a free download through his website. It’s about the wrestling match with the US political machine to get out the vote. Bittersweet, funny and truly challenging, the documentary pairs [...]
Poem of the Month ~ October 2008 The will to praise this mutilated world is not about non-action or resignation. Rather, it reflects a compassion choice to encounter the rawness of What Is. Such crazy wisdom moves the heart, stoking the fires of love, justice, and right action. Try praise, try loving yourself and our [...]
Thanks to Maria H. for sending this poem. It is a call that is echoing in my heart-mind. Call & Answer Tell me why we don’t lift our voices these days and cry over what is happening. Have you noticed the plans are made for Iraq and the ice cap is melting? I say to [...]
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read September 27–October 4, 2008 Thanks to Adele S. for sending this info! Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for [...]
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