Staring over the edge The cliffs at the end of the world, near Sagres, Portugal. Tottenham 0 - 3 Nottingham Forest I moved to Cheshunt, Herts, in England in 1978, just six weeks after the English football season ended. Under the guidance of Brian Clough, Nottingham Forest won the First Division […]

Alberta wants a high price for their oil. Oil companies love it. Oil company owners love it. So while you’re struggling to fill your tank at 2.15 a litre and the added fuel costs are added to everything else we buy remember that the champions of Canada’s Economic […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Why we create music I am so grateful that I can make music. It's a language that allows me to speak in the pure vocabulary of emotion with people. It allows me to relate to people in a way that is totally different from every other form of social interaction, even sport, which comes closest […]

Seasons change Here on Nexwlélexwm/Bowen Island, we are sliding into astronomical spring with a final hurrah from our rainy season. A long atmospheric river has been delivering rain steadily for five days. Rain totals have varied over the region with Point Atkinson, 8 km to our south south east […]

Farewell to Europe Tottenham 3 (5) v 2 (7) Athletico Madrid It might be the last Spurs match in Europe for a while. Having navigated the league stage of the Champions League with style, Spurs were dire in the round of 16 versus Atletico Madrid. Last week in Madrid a series of goalkeeping […]

Quibbling over whether "harmony" or "groove" is the right way to describe coordinated action. SPOILER ALERT: "Groove" is the correct term. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/groove-and-harmony-are-different-things/

Dave Snowden finishes his 5 part series on anthro-complexity with very important and clear perspectives on the role of the practitioner. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-role-of-the-complexity-practitioner/

Donald Trump is such a fucking idiot and the whole world just told him to fuck off. That’s the whole toot.

Humpbacks in Howe Sound A photo by Burns Jennings of a whale that surfaced near his boat in Seymour Bay in 2022. I'm on the shore in front of a garage door, watching through my binoculars. Back in 2005, my friend Pauline Le Bel wrote a musical about the history of Bowen Island, starting with […]

If Job was a sports fan… My first live Vancouver Goldeneyes game. A result typical of the last year of sports in my life, but an amazing atmosphere and culture in the arena. Everyone watches women's sports. So here is a rundown of the last eight months of sports in my life: The ugly: TSS Rovers […]

A new definition of anthro-complexity Participants in a meeting of the Japanese OD Network self-organizing in a dialogic container to discuss what they learning from an embodied experience of constraints, Kanzan University, Nagoya, 2019 Dave Snowden is publishing a TON of stuff these last few […]

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116211049171831445 William Lindsay's daily threads are good roundups of the history that is unfolding around us as a small group of compromised and deeply unwell narcissists kill people through intent, neglect, cruelty, glee, and sheer ignorance. I'm hoping […]

Spots still open for our Art of Hosting! Join us! https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/spots-still-open-for-our-art-of-hosting-april-27-29/

The Canucks are 2-25 in 2026.

Connection and disconnection and reconnection I have a bunch of little slogans that I use to help me make sense of my hosting practice. One of these is "the shortest distance between two people is a story," a line that I learned years ago from Patti Digh. I read Patti's blog daily and today she […]

Looking for some good books that will expand your young person’s mind? Have a look at the ones the idiots in the Alberta government find threatening. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-school-book-ban-order-graphic-novels-9.7118495 #censorship #abpoli #books

Advice from a 92 year-old to those in their 50s & 60s: Build strength. You need more friends, as many will die. Talk about death & dying. Build a life outside of work. You have less time with your spouse than you think. Forgive everyone. Your adult children don't need your advice. They need […]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116182842905460491 The #BCNDP added a 0.54% flat tax increase in BC, with graduated rebates for people under $45k. A flat tax. That means people making way over $45k pay a smaller % of their income in this weak, sad, pathetic tax increase. 8 years of "NOT" the […]

What’s the nature of our relationship with the USA? https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/whats-the-nature-of-our-relationship-with-the-isa/

Plus ça change... https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/an-old-song-about-the-war-in-the-gulf/

Theory for practice 3: The ecology of dialogic containers and making change The landscape dictates what is possible and what is not. This is the third of a series on facilitation, dialogic containers and context. In it I want to develop a theory of context for facilitators on that explains not […]

All of the current Cynefin Co. frameworks used to understand and work with complexity. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/all-seven-cynefin-co-frameworks/

20 years on this platform https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/20-years-on-this-platform/

The stability that never comes https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/the-stability-that-never-comes/

A bunch of stuff to give you hope and frustration https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/a-bunch-of-stuff-to-give-you-hope-and-frustration/

Now model seats.

It is now official policy for the USA to ignore the inventions, treaties, agreements and laws that define legal warfare. This is likely to be part of the evidence that will be used to convict Hegseth of war crimes […]

Well how about that? BC has finally decided to stop waiting and stay in Daylight Saving Time. Amazing.

Sports! Not the most pressing issue in the world, but the teams I love and follow and have a bit invested in are all having bad fortnights. The Canadian men's and women's Olympic teams both lost their gold medal games to the USA in overtime. Tottenham Hotspur has dropped both games of new […]

37 MLAs voted to repeal the human rights of British Columbians https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/37-mlas-voted-to-repeal-the-human-rights-of-british-columbians/

The free market seized 100,000 houses of people who died to pay for the medical treatment that didn’t prevent their deaths.

*Gulp*

Just saw Daniel Lapp and Quinn Bachand on Bowen Island, and oh man. An unreal performance. Read on.... https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/daniel-lapp-and-quinn-bachand-astonishing-joy/

Just finished reading A Psalm for teh Wild Built. Like a Hermann Hesse story, it is a light and validating parable suitable for a wet day, a warm room and a cup of tea.

Making beauty together Carmina Bowena warming up before our concert on Monday I sing in a choir here on Bowen Island called Carmina Bowena. We focus our attention on Rennaisence European music, singing sacred music, madrigals and modern inspirations of the same. We alos sing folk music and more […]

A local resource for local Bowen Islanders. Your town or neighbourhood should have one too. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/bowen-island-resources/

Can we please fucking remember that citizens of Canada are citizens of Canada that can freely move to any province and live there? Just becasue you live in one province or another does not mean you have acquired an additional national citizenship. JFC these Albertans who want to "separate" are […]

Help us create and install a Squamish welcome figure on Bowen Island My friend Pauline Le Bel published the first in a series of articles in our local paper on our project to install a Squamish welcome figure here on Bowen Island. This article talks about the history of the project. And here is […]

A beautiful new RSS feed reader and I get introduced to "hope punk" through Becky Chambers' work, becasue small town libraries are the best. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/how-to-find-good-things/

Is Danielle Smith mentioned in the Epstein files, or is she just coddling racists and the break up of Canada all of her own accord? We’ve had some bad premiers in our time. But even the most separatist of Quebec premiers at least built the civic institutions they knew they would need if they […]

If you are a tenor you know...if you sing another voice in a choir, well, you know too. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/tenor-of-the-times/

Heartbreak. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/heartbreak/

Cultivating coherence and disagreement as a civic responsibility for good leaders. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/good-leaders-cultivate-disagreement/

My heart and support goes out to the female flight attendants from Westjet. The settlement they got today acknowledges the misogyney they faced, but doesn't feel like enough. I have witnessed enough brazen and blatant musogyny and disrespect of the women who work for Westjet that I will not take […]

I'm just loving the fact that the CBC is broadcasting the olympics in English, French, Inuktitut, Cree and Innu. What's that saying...? "the American mind cannot comprehend..."

The baseline for Bowen Island’s development My friend Peter Frinton, a long time Islander, and former Councillor, sent along an email the other week with his thoughts on the current Bowen Island Official Community Plan process. In it he included a link to an old landscape analysis by H.E […]

Some really shitty stuff Three observations on really shitty things: how medicine handled HRT, a massive sewage spill in Aotearoa and the way AI has actually destroyed search. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/some-really-shitty-stuff/

Reflections and gratitude for Jesse Jackson's life. https://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot/jesse-jackson-has-died/

One of the best things. Olympic hockey commentary in Inuktitut on CBC.