Category: Musing

Reflecting on the tapestry of small-town life

gustavo
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Once or twice a week, I spend early mornings in our natural-food-and-free-wireless coffee shop in town working on project planning and correspondence. Over the months, I’ve gotten to know a few regulars — folks who work nearby, retired professors, college students — and listened to bits of stories about their lives and what’s important to them. | Read more.

In: Musing, Transformation

A month inside walled gardens

Walled garden
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Favorite musings

I know the pendulum spirals between “information wants to be free” and “information want to be expensive” and I think we come out at a more expansive level most of the time. It’s just that the exclusionary approach makes me nervous. | Read more.

In: Collaboration, Communications, Creativity, Governance, Higher education, Journalism, Musing, Open Web, Self-directed learning, Social Web, Social curation, Society, Transformation

Into the liminal: an ode to autumn

Pine cone
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This afternoon, the wind whipped the leaves into wispy funnels that danced out around the woodpile and up the back hill, inviting us to come out. | Read more.

In: Maine, Musing, Self-directed learning, Transformation
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