Global Development – the local challenge
The changes taking place in society are so pervasive that they are causing fundamental shifts in our thinking, attitudes and our approaches to development issues. The integration of economies, shifts in manufacturing bases, communications developments and technological developments are having impacts, causing stress and re-evaluation of institutions, programs and methodologies. In essence, we are arriving […]
The Fragility of Communities
(The Picture – Heading to the office on my rental machine that will be used to travel along the string of communities along the Lower North Shore of Quebec to engage people in a series of CED workshops to address their serious issues of fisheries collapse and its implications) This presentation was delivered to our […]
New Beginnings – Life’s struggles
Where am I It is a Sunday morning in January and I am in the Magdelin Islands and decide I need a walk to clear my mind. The walk stimulates my thoughts to all that has changed in my life in the past six months and since I left Newfoundland some ten years ago. My […]
Truth – life’s fragility
I have been giving a lot of thought of late to truth and its impact on one’s life. Truth is such a nebulous concept with different meaning for different people, different contexts for different events, and different realities for anyone who even contemplates its meaning. My own concept of what’s true is being tried and […]
Into the Light – life’s passages
It is interesting to reflect on life and its many phases. It appears as if a person in moving through these phases experience a sense of newness, apprehension, familiarity and comfort and eventually through to a place of both impasse and no return. It seems that it is only when one reaches this stage that […]
Despair – life’s learning
As I am reading the Globe and Mail on the 29th of January I am struck by two articles about Newfoundland. A feeling, which may be akin to nostalgia appears, a feeling enhanced by a large dose of Newfoundland through movies, books and old acquaintances which all have appeared over the past few months. I […]
Peace – life’s torment
I sat with a group today over lunch and the topic of peace arose and it caused me to ponder – what indeed is peace. I have found little of it my life as it appears that there is this restlessness that appears each time as I get to a “place” in life where perhaps […]
A Time of Reflection
I haven’t written in a while, in fact it’s probably the longest time in years that I haven’t had reflective thoughts or should I say none that pushed me to put them to paper. Yet, I do feel the need to write, to contemplate and to reflect. I feel a nervous agitation within myself that […]
Home – life’s longing
I have been giving a lot of thought lately to “Home”. Why, I’m not sure. Perhaps it is because of the transient nature that my life has had for the past number of years. Maybe it is because of the number of places in which I have lived – each having to become home. Then, […]
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