It was such a pleasure to hang out with you, Brian and Keira and to have a chance to open up my Mary Poppins bag with UBC. I am glad you found it valuable–it was certainly a, well, wild presentation…

Yay for you blogging! I look forward to following along as you slow-blog. Keeping a transparent, connected reflective practice isn’t for everyone, but I sure think we’d be better off if more people would take the time to write from the heart and mind, contextualizing the personal within the larger world, and looking out beyond the moment and the minutiae. Make sure you let everyone know where you’re blogging. Will you incorporate your music? I’d love to read such a post!

And you know I’d return to Vancouver any time!!

And, you know, you may have convinced me to become a blogger. Never really took to it, but I think the notion of slow blogging really struck a chord.

Thank you for your time & amazing energy. I do hope we have the opportunity in the very near future to bring you back to Vancouver!

You are on my shortlist, too. I’m hoping to attend both of those conferences precisely because they attract incredible people and because if ever there could be experimentation within a conference, I think it would happen there.

Alan,

Creating noboats was fun and inspired by your wikis, especially “50 Ways…” but I’m a blogger at heart, methinks, liking to invite people to explore and to discuss and to tell stories, so this time I tried out a blog instead of a wiki. We didn’t get to half of these exercises, but I like that they can come back to this sprawl of options in their own time and space and work through them if they like.

Thanks, too, for the Abbey quotations. Gotta love that guy’s attitude and his ability to find just the right words to capture it.

Brian,

Thanks to you and Keira, I came away inspired to be even bolder in my thinking while modulating my big spirit; i.e. making sure I leave enough space for the people around me . Lots to think about and to explore in my work now thanks to you.

I love “City of Glass,” and have looked at it several times since I returned home. What a city, what a landscape, and what people. I will be back, you can be sure of that–now that I have basked in the great hospitality of Chez Lamb/McPhee and eaten of the legendary ceviche and tacos, well, you won’t be able to keep me away from those parties especially if they invite experimental approaches to presentation.

bg

All I can do right now is humbly thank you for what you gave to us. I am especially grateful for how “unremitting” you were… You took no quarter, and I will never forget it. All I can hope is that it is indeed true you found the considerable energy and inspiration you expended here to be as worthwhile for you as it was for us.

I suggested *City of Glass* by Douglas Coupland as your formal speakers gift, as a fairly transparent ploy that I hope will help lure you back here. Please consider coming back when we have a bigger party going, whether it be Northern Voice next February, or the Open Education conference next August.

And you are now the poster child for thoughtful insurrection, yay! I fall back to one of my favorite Edward Abbey quotes, “Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up once in a while, all of the scum rises to the top”.

right next to the bold, though not as related, “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell”

On a personal note, based on reading your blog for a while and all I’ve heard from Brian and many others, if you do find a good fit at NV or NMC– the former has been a winner for me twice, because of the people, the latter I might shoot for next year– I hope you’ll spread the word. You’re on my shortlist of “people I need to meet and talk to!”