Community
The Liturgists
A community for people facing difficult seasons in life and transitions in their beliefs, for people who live with uncertainties, doubts, and questions, and for people who are not afraid to face hard topics with honesty.
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Science
The Fuller Challenge
Starting with the whole, Buckminster Fuller anticipated future trends and needs, employed the scientific method, and aligned with nature’s operating principles. He saw that this way of thinking and doing is the future of design. He called his practice design science.
Design
Mentoring with Designlab
Since August of 2018, I have been helping people who are actively seeking a shift in their careers as they learn user experience design. Designlab is training the next generation of designers.
Culture
Love, Death, and Chaos
One of the most important things we can do is begin to look with new eyes, to see what we might make of our lives that is good and possible.
Art
The Universe Smiles Upon You
Who is this guy? I started talking to him about it, exchanged numbers, and I got a text from him—randomly—one day. Hadn’t heard from him in ages. Got a text that just said, “The universe smiles upon you.” And I knew exactly who it was from.
Culture
We Are Treaty People
The Two Row Wampum Treaty is considered by the Haudenosaunee to be the basis of all of their subsequent treaties with European and North American governments, and the citizens of those nations.
Resilience
Rediscovering an Inner Resilience
Wendy Vanguard found new joy by shifting her focus to her family, personal creative projects, and giving back to her community through mentorship. Throughout a lifetime of unexpected turns, struggles, and successes, Wendy rediscovered an inner resilience.
Philosophical Humour
“If we desire a record of uninterpreted experience, we must ask a stone to record its autobiography.” — Alfred North Whitehead
Culture
Extraction Empire
Globally, more than 75% of prospecting and mining companies on the planet are based in Canada. Seemingly impossible to conceive, the scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada’s historical legacy as state, nation, and now, as global resource empire.
Culture
Colonization Road
Since Europeans arrived on these shores, roads have been built to bring settlers across the country, connect them with resources to create industry and ultimately to establish a nation. Many of these interconnecting networks are called Colonization Road.
Culture
Please Stand By
Canada is experiencing a little difficulty with the neoliberal capitalist machine. The police state has enlisted its military forces to quell the people who are trying to hold the government responsible for its crimes.
Culture
Invading Indigenous Territory
Trudeau paid lip service to the process of reconciliation and lied about the breakdown of talks with Indigenous leaders. Then, in an act of aggression, Canada invaded the unceded territory of the Tyendinaga Mohawks.