Launch of new blog category: Photo Essays
After finally cleaning my hard drive, I’ve got the stats for the photos I’ve taken...
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Sheltering a budding promise, close to the earth
I took several photos at the Rainier Beach Urban Farm project, at several different levels of scale, from entire greenhouses, to rows of pumpkin or squash runners apparently vying for the longest reach, and even clusters of...
Read MoreWhere natural rhythms prevail and refresh
Urban greenery, in parks, gardens, and sheltered pathways, turns the experience of the city inside out. For some city dwellers, everything “outdoors” is for getting from one place to another place in as little time as possible;...
Read MoreWhen we become the peace that passes all understanding
I kept watching for this moment to take a picture of the Peace sign that had been marking the progress of the prayer walk through Rainier Beach, sometimes leading from the front, other times lingering further back. Here, the...
Read MoreA sacred place for reclaiming the shared promise of young lives lost
This curbside memorial, in all its exuberant chaos of blossoms, balloons, toys and statuettes, represents for me the awakening of the sacred in space, just as the church bell represents the emergence of the sacred in time. This...
Read MoreA yard sale network–and neighborhood event–you don’t want to miss
Something about the make-shift assembly of this particular sign caught my eye. The neighborhood had been blanketed with the “branded” poster at the top of the photo, but this entire configuration displayed an ad hoc flow of...
Read MoreFor whom the bell tolls, and when—sacred rhythms that structure and interrupt the routines of life
Church bells and carillons are the legacy of times past, when the rhythms of worship and prayer structured the lives of the surrounding community as a reminder of what time it is now, and what we are called to do with the time...
Read More10+ musings on Liberating Voices and Civic Engagement
Here are a few overall musings on the Liberating Voices Pattern Language and Civic Engagement, based primarily on conversations that occurred during and after the series of workshops I conducted at The Evergreen State College...
Read MoreGratitude for Songaia, the Journey of a Song of the Earth
This posting is something of a dedication for the new series of articles under the category of “Inner Voices,” which I have introduced in another posting as a music-based, rather than psychological, metaphor for a...
Read MoreInner Voices: Exploring the Mid-range Voices for Hints of Structural Community Innovation
OK, it’s time to start anew, and to symbolize a fresh beginning, I’m opening up a new category, Inner Voices. I intend to use the term primarily in it’s musical sense and the structural development of complex...
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