Ukrainian Reflections – after three months
(This was taken on a train from Kyiv to Uzhgorod a frequent trip for me. While it was a 17 hour journey it was always fun and often insightful as you met many people.) Saturday the 14th was the beginning of my third month in Ukraine. As I write this it is once again on […]
Community Sustainability – a spiritual mission
Present societal change is causing both reflection and reorganization of the fundamentals of our society, institutions, and approach to government. Theses shifts have been evident for the past number of decades but now the limits of sustainability of our present social and economic structures are being reached.
Community Economic Development
Community Economic Development (CED), the development of communities by the people that live in them, in the Canadian context, has had a very varied history and one could suggest a very checkered past. One could even say it is still a history in the making as in the country among communities, policy makers and others […]
CED Workshop – Slavski Ukraine
Much of my work during my four years in Ukraine was in the preparation and delivery of workshops for community groups and local people. This one was held in a beautiful village in the mountains called Slavski. The group were very keen and we had an intense few days of sharing and learning.
Moving Beyond the Shadows – a time for honest contemplation
I have been contemplating the concept of “shadows” for sometime. A thoughtful statement by a colleague and friend initiated this reflection as he suggested that the work of building community requires those doing the guiding to appear as shadows. This reminded me of Scotland where oftentimes, my suggestion to those with whom I worked, was […]
Disposable Life – throw away thinking
It’s amazing that at a point in time in human history, when people are supposedly most learned, sophisticated and advanced, life is so expendable. I say life because most everything in life to day is disposable. A society has been created whereby things are acquired and disposed with little regard for the nature of their […]
Visiting an English school in Taiwan
My sisters, Grace, Doll and Rae and I were invited to attend an English School by my youngest sister’s daughter Krista who was in Taiwan teaching English. We had an opportunity to interact and talk to the students.
Leading the Way – an experiment in
The role of satellite and community cable was not widespread in 1987 when the town of Pasadena (a small rural community of 3000 residents in Western Newfoundland) began what became a five year experiment to “Awaken the Entrepreneurial Spirit” of the local area. Being Economic Development Officer at the time afforded me the opportunity to […]
People – their humaness
Globalization and the global community are words used to address a phenomenon causing the breakdown of geographical boundaries among the nation states of the world. We are slow to recognize that the collapse of local borders in our community-based structures is also occurring. As the world becomes borderless, ultimately everything we do will become borderless. […]
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