The View from Zero Gravity
Introducing Myself in Reconciliation Times
(This a copy of a comment I made on a Facebook post from an indigenous artist friend, who always has things to say that trigger self-reflection about my role in the process of truth and reconciliation with BC’s First Nations people. Photos added) A speaker panel from...
“What do YOU do?” – The Introduction Dilemma
My FB comment on a thread started by a friend who queries how to respond to the question "What do you do?" at a networking event. After - as she put it - 'A year of no work': "A year of no work." I doubt that. A year of no title, perhaps, no paid work perhaps, but I...
Should artists have to talk about their work? Here’s what I think…
Should Artists Have to Talk About Their Work?, a provocative article by Glasstire editor Christina Rees (Aug. 5/17). Follow the link and see, then here's my musings on the subject: This article is a great jumping-off place for a really important conversation. It...
WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: What’s up with that?
There are two kinds of WordPress sites: hosted by WordPress on their .com site, and the site you build on your own host by installing the open source WordPress software from their .org site. (See wordpress.com and wordpress.org) To get started if you are new to this,...
New Year, Old Issues
Well, 2016 is now water under the bridge! I just got off a group video call with American and Canadian participants, and nobody mentioned politics at all. This is probably a hopeful sign, and I choose to think of it that way. As they say, "Start as you mean to go on"....
And furthermore…
Just returned from many days at an international intensive training in nonviolent communication, not as a participant but as the local host/organizer. I have a lot to say about this experience, and about the awesome venue at The Brew Creek Centre near Whistler, BC,...