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“Raven People Rising” Documentary screens at VIFF gala

Ahh…. that time you write and direct a film on a wing and a prayer and, by some mysterious blend of luck and timing, it ends up screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival… Throughout 2018, I worked on contract with RAVEN (https://raventrust.com) with a dream team (Alex Harris, Gary McNutt, Jeremy Williams) to direct…

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Hugs and hygge

Well if it isn’t my favourite posse of interwebular buddies!! Hello dear people!! It’s chilly and quiet here on Salt Spring Island. Songbirds have gone south and the locals are drawing nearer to interior fires, both metaphoric and real. No matter how hygge we’re all feeling, the beauty and outrageousness of the great world continues to wash up on our screens day after day.…

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Well hello there. Feb 2018 News

It’s been a wee while since my last newsletter and have I got some shares for you. First though, this killer Chrome extension is going to change your life. You’re welcome. Now onto the good stuff: What in the world: A town who took back their electrical grid. See Dick resist.  Here’s a way to get the government we…

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My Story

As a solopreneur, I’ve been carving out a living and a life for myself doing what I love for over 20 years. No matter what stage you are at in business or organizational development I’ve been where you are, or worked with someone who has. When I travelled to Africa and came face to face…

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How to operate your mammal

G’day mates. It’s always astonishing to watch the transformation of bare branches in the springtime: the maple tree outside my kitchen window, a clean silhouette just days ago, is festooned with ornate chartreuse flowers. The leaves will soon obscure my view of the ocean. On the hillside behind my house the dogwood trees are preparing…

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My dad’s letters

Back in the day before Facebook, suburban families used to create saccharine little status updates and mail them out with their annual Christmas cards.  My family was no different — except my dad used the tradition as a sort of platform to gently mock the whole notion of Presenting the Perfect Family, wrapped up in…

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Pipelandia or Blockadia?

This was a tough week to be a pipeline fighter. On Tuesday, in the middle of a pipelines communication  storm, I ran home for breakfast (at 3pm!) and stopped to grab the mail. Included with the bills and the crap was a handwritten letter — from me, to me — from a conference I attended last spring.…

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Dispatches from the discomfort zone

Forget about a list of election post-mortems from me. Just bop the bigot: including the bigot within.  Leonard Cohen on the rewards of abandoning hope in exchange for “the lowly practices of self-reform.”  Musings on the anthopocene:  we are conjuring ourselves as ghosts that will haunt the very deep future. Feeling vulnerable? Encrypt everything.  Exhausted by tangled conspiracies? Adam Curtis weaves archival footage into a tapestry of…

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Baby won’t you light my fire?

Oh so many sharings. Such precious time. Where to begin? Well: how about with one big blast of the way I feels after this crazy headlong week of productivity plus?? Ahhhhhhhh that’s better. Yup, it was a hot one.  Heated discussions led to a kickass reading list for white folks (**find it in the footer**).  Got all…

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In common, nature

Oh, you wild pendulum ride. It’s been a week full of ups and downs. Anniversaries : of losing someone I adored, of falling in love, of grassy festival nights, of getting sober. There’s been political theatre: finding strange glee in the disgrace of ‘enemies’, looking for redemption when you’ve lost your heart, sharing in the…

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