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What I heard Gord Hume say

  What we build lasts r  e  v  e  r  b  e  r  a  t  e  s for decades, centuries, millennia in the heart beat of the soul _____

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Citizen as evolutionary agent

  The questions put to candidates in the election forums I have been moderating for the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues this fall are about what city hall can do for citizens. No one is asking...

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Electoral energy

I have been moderating a series of election forums across my city and I am in awe of the energy candidates for civic office put into their campaigns. Last night was the third evening I have spent with...

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Happy Election Day!

  Today we choose who will be leading the significant public institutions who have a significant hand in shaping our city.  Today, we choose who will run city hall and our school boards. If you haven’t...

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My city waved at me

  One morning last week, as I stood at the edge of the river valley, I watched a group of young people walk down the path, well below me. At 9am it was odd to see a group of  20 people walking that...

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I’m not a salesperson

  What’s moving in me is a convergence connecting the inside and outside of me a pattern of knowing and feeling how to open, to let go   my dreams are not mine I’m not a salesperson anymore life isn’t...

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Be a vehicle for the future

  Humanity is the living embodiment of crossing over, say Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kauffer in their book, Leading from the Emerging Future, as they reflect on Neitzsche’s reflection of man as a rope,...

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Opening I’s

  Opening I’s Curiosity grows in learning the highest potential in a magical vortex learning, exploring life long leading, pointing to big decisions that live local near and far the universe conspires...

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Shifting masks

  Creative knowing shifting masks awakening heart an infectious energy vulnerable without reservation together in community we pause   to see each other   to slow for clarity for intention unfolding...

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The duke of purple

  The duke of purple Imagine my surprise when the duke of purple struggles at every age with deep compelling stories wait   what?   I’ve always wanted to be with you universally   double ding   I’m...

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Ring us in

  Ring us in We are the ones we have been waiting for* in every interaction holding hands, soul gifts spoken and unspoken   spoken and unspoken teachers shoulders   we are here ring us in   *Hopi...

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Arigato

  Arigato* The thread we hold propels with energy easing connection, trust opening the inside outsight with a flame relit transforming intention with a fresh faith regenerating illumination   the task...

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Walking wonders

  I write at three different scales. I focus on either a short and quick blog post, a more time-consiming article, or my book project, Nest City. I have to confess that the blog posts have taken a back...

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Who can we be?

  Who can we be?   What is separate need not be, For the Divine is personal. There’s enough love, and enough room For all of it. A falling away Of illusions because there’s no going back. With profound...

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Every building builds your city

  Every time a building is built, we are shaping our city, whether its the new garage on your block, or Calgary’s new landmark library. The site and the architects, Snohetta of Norway, have been...

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Offer your Self to your city

  There is a battle underway between individuals and our institutions, but it isn’t us vs them. It is a battle embodied within each of us, between my self and my larger, highest potential Self. Our...

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Infrastructure for precious communication

  To transform the quality of communication throughout our social and economic systems, we must learn to see ourselves through the eyes of others and the whole. This is the next revolution, according...

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Shift the locus of leadership

  For Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer, authors of Leading from the Emerging Future, making the move from silos to wiser ways of organizing means shifting the locus of leadership. Moving leadership from...

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Yet another transition

  A couple weeks ago, some colleagues and I gathering to begin a conversation about how we could work together around resilience and adaptability in our lives and communities. Here’s a poem that...

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Disaster blows the blinders off

  Some colleagues and I spent the afternoon exploring resilience in the face of disaster. We noticed that disaster takes place an many scales – the heart attack the demands a new normal in an...

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