Sunday, March 17, 2013, 09:33 PM - Outdoor adventure
Mar 17, 2013. At our AGM, I happily became Co-Chair with the incomparable Rich Campbell. We welcomed four new members to the board- Linda, Jessie, Lynn and Diana (gender equity and youth!) and had a stimulating discussion about our future.
Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative, constructivist, strength-based philosophy and approach to both personal and organizational development. AI uses shared leadership and assets to leverage what is already working well in the organization. It is inquiry and dialogue based.
At the AGM, we asked members:
DISCOVER. What are our strengths? What have we accomplished? What role does the broader community look to WRWEO to play?
DREAM. What does the world ask WRWEO to be? What do we dream WRWEO to be? Where are we best positioned to act?
Later in May, based on this meeting the Board continued the AI process and came to four strategic priorities: Bluff Trail and wilderness area maintenance and stewardship; youth engagement and education; greater focus on watershed and water issues; key contributing stakeholder in community-based governance structures for wilderness protection
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Sunday, November 25, 2012, 10:43 PM - Outdoor adventure
photo credit: Karen Mckendry
I led a walk with the Young Naturalists on the Bluff Wilderness Trail about lichen. Lichen is a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. We simulated a symbiotic relationship by clasping arms with someone behind our backs and walking for awhile. The young naturalists also identified old man's beard and reindeer lichen on the trail.
Sunday, October 14, 2012, 03:11 AM - Outdoor adventure
This is one of the reasons why I work part-time
Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 06:16 PM - Poetry and Writing
Black folds into fog into forest.
An arm shot bare. On her knees
in the sphagnum humming,
plunging knuckles numb.
One day as any other
you find you’re carrying death.
Lilith came long before Eve.
She led her.
She’s back breathing
night with the sleepless
plucking ferns
by the moon
before they unfurl
unshoe the coming horses.
Monday, June 4, 2012, 05:45 PM - Poetry and Writing
Alessandra Naccarato started a great initiative against Bill 78 in Quebec around poetry. Restricting the right to organize in Canada??!! Where is the Canada we used to be proud of. To go to the poetry website click on related link below. This is one of the two poems that I contributed:
He ordered the trees
and the flowers,
lined up all of the
creatures in
rows, hushed
the forest but
a group of
diaphanous
butterflies began
to emerge. Dozens
then tens of
thousands danced
a red fury,
wings clanging.
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