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 […]

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 […]

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.  
A workshop group in India

A Journey to India

Meeting people and making new friends has been one the treasures of my work and my travels.  One such friend, Sam Chelladurai, whom I met at a conference in India, invited me to his home as a means to exchange experiences in community and development. I have written these notes to share my adventures, experiences […]

Affirming Self – just being

The most fundamental of human needs after physical sustenance is that of affirmation.  People have need to sense a conscious reality, to perceive permanence and to belong.  It is primarily why people have gathered together in groups and created structures throughout history.  The perception of security that emanates from belonging is critical to spiritual health […]

Accepting Stillness – enduring solstice

Solstice is the point in time when the sun on reaching the extremity of its cycle, becomes still before beginning the next cycle of earth’s seasons.  Solstices are about change, uncertainty and transition from one season to the next.  In earlier periods the advent of each solar solstice was the cause of much  apprehension as […]