Love Life’s Strength
(A view of the ocean on a cold winter morning in windswept Blanc Sablon on the Lower North Shore of Quebec) I am sitting here this morning overlooking the partially frozen ocean contemplating, reminiscing and wondering. Perhaps I am also in “wonder” about all that has happened over the past year and one half since […]
Tears
I shed a tear today, in fact, I cried a lot. My tears were for the marginalised, disadvantaged all those who experience despair. They were, perhaps as well, for my own inadequacies in influencing the systems that create such disparities. How deeply I relate to such feelings in my own aloneness/loneliness. The tears were not […]
Where am I
( Here I am heading out with a group from our organization “The Community Table” to climb the hills of Entry Islands in The Magdellan Islands. We wanted to get a better view of the beauty of the island and the ocean from on high.) It is a Sunday morning in January and I am […]
Belonging the Basis of Community – small is necessary
I truly, believe that the problems we face in this world won’t be solved by doing, until we have contemplated the context, depth and reality of these problems and not just accepted the perceptions that appear so evident. Just maybe, our perceptions might be muddled by the words which people use, but don’t fully understand, […]
The Tarnished Chalice
I wonder what kind of world we have created as I hear once again today that a child has taken someone’s life. Apparently a young child shot his teacher at the end of the school day. I contemplate what we are passing on to the generations to come. Once it was important to cherish young […]
Economic Development – the conundrum of community
During the seventies and eighties it was relatively clear that economics was about business, and as such, development was about business attraction. This picture began to blur with advances in technology, global mobility and governments reaching the limits of theirs fiscal abilities. This shift poses a dilemma for policy-makers in Canada and those elsewhere in […]
Renewing Democracy
This compilation of articles are ones that I was compelled to write at the time albeit, I feel they are incomplete. I have always believed that there were more to come, until now none so compelling have appeared – perhaps because there is more to learn. Engaging Folk Life’s Dance Dancing, like governance, is natural […]
A Dialogue – life’s reflections
This paper comprises of responses to that I made over a period of time in discussions with friends and family about somethings that are important in and to life. Its called a dialogue because at the time my soul was in a dialogue with my mind about what is important.
Community and Development – a conundrum
Current government retrenchment with an ensuing devolution of responsibilities to more local areas is causing interesting dynamics in the field of community and economic development. Traditionally considered the domain of more senior levels of governments such development has gradually been taken on by those involved in governance closer to the local level. This necessitates new […]
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