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Culpable
There is always a point of view, a particular perspective that is subjective rather than objective, a view from somewhere. My perspective is Canadian, outside of the United States of America, but adjacent, and deeply connected.
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Culture
The Absolute Discussed
Racism and white supremacy are the foundation of the laws of the Dominion of Canada. To fail to recognize and acknowledge this fact is to be ignorant, to be a coward, to be complicit, or to be criminal. I see no other options.
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Invitation of Love
When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers.… The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly.
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Humans
This form of communication, they speculated, was all that was necessary to claim the territory for the leader of their group, the human who wears a symbolic circle of purified metal and semi-transparent rocks on its head.
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Question
When we realize we have been playing a game where the cards have been stacked against us, how do we respond? When things go wrong, how do we recover?
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What is Resilience?
What is resilience? Through our observations of natural, living systems, humans have been learning about the evolutionary adaptations of community, collaboration, and cooperation.
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Re:design
The tradition of learning through play (from Froebel through Dewey) could harness play for education, because it recognised both the element of learning which is always present in play, and saw education not as a training process, but as the nurturing of the child’s own capacities.
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Life and Death
To change our minds, to shift our consciousness is to change the world. Once people see reality, they will not be able to unsee it.
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Risk
Poetry works by contradictions, qualifications by metaphor, wherein there are overlappings, discrepancies, and contradictions. Paradox is related to irony and to figurative language.
Art
The Systems View of Life
My work in environmental education has convinced me that there’s hardly anything more effective than the arts—the visual arts, music, or the performing arts—for developing and refining our natural ability to recognize and express patterns.
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Shift
Recognizing that we are experiencing a shift, how might we collaborate to create an app to daily monitor the shift? Would it be possible to quantify and map the shift in values, perceptions, states of mind, and relationships?
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Violation
(Content warning: sexual assault and violence.) There is no viable path forward together. If there is any hope for the relationship, the man would need a complete change of heart: admission of a problem, remorse, contrition, a commitment to therapy and behavioural change.