by Kurt Heinrich | Dec 7, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Ok, this is the first time (though likely not the last time) I’m going to toot the horn about my employer the Vancouver School Board. Part of the reason I wanted to write this blog post is because there are some truly amazing little communities existing, in many...
by John Horn | Sep 11, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? I’m a reader, a writer, a Vancouver lifer, a pretty good veggie cook, a yogi, and depending on the day and season, a whole lot of other things. By day, I work as a high school English teacher. This year, I have grade tens and elevens. We’re...
by potential | Jul 4, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Labels are bad. But then again, we love them. Oh, do we ever love them. Without labels we couldn’t classify things and fit them into the hierarchy. Everything has a stepped grading system of better and worse. How else would we know how to value things? Hmm? And don’t...
by Michael Boronowski | May 4, 2010 | Adaptability, Leadership
Previously on Lost in this series: We avoided self-righteous indignation We said nice things to people Locke totally isn’t Locke, he’s the smoke thing OMG AMIRITE!!1!ONE1! Ahem… Focus Part Two Put on your blinders and blinkers boys and girls. One Track Mind...
by John Horn | Aug 20, 2009 | Creativity, Leadership
Sometime back in Classical Greece someone carved “know thyself” on my least favourite god, Apollo’s, temple at Delphi. No one really knows who wrote it, but a quick twitblog of the interscape will tell you that Socrates (or maybe Plato) took credit...
