I have a little folder of starred articles in my NetNewsWire feed reader that contain links to pieces that deserve a little more thoughtfulness and which I haven't had time to dive into. Here are a bunch from the last month or so. Maybe you could read one or two of them and share your thoughts here. I'll get to these eventually.

Georges Island, in Halifax harbour, at the threshold of the Atlantic Ocean and historically a place of transition for prisoners of war and displaced Acadians. I'm coming to the end of my year, and all my travel is finished. I have a few small paying gigs left this month, all of which are online. My autumn has been much busier than usual, with much more travel and in person hosting that has been the practice.

Oil pipelines Scott Moe and getting rid of the cruelty.

Canada has a new weather alert system and I'm writing this blog post because I know I'm going to need to share it with folks in the future. The systems categorizes weather events based on the above matrix, which represents an intersection of the forecasted impact of the event and the confidence of the forecast. I like the simplicity of the colour coding, because that gets my attention and will always cause me to read more in the forecast description.

Inspired a bit by Seth Godin's post this morning on why blogging still matters, I'm going through the blog rolls of two of my favourite discontinued blogs of the past 25 years, whiskey river and wood s lot and checking the blog rolls and adding the ones still going to my RSS feed. And as I do so, sipping some excellent coffee from Weird Harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I'm coming across a thing or two to share.

Some thoughts on why we need to write with our real voices.

With more and more whales living in the Salish Sea, encounters between humans and humpbacks have increased. There have been several whale strikes this year, and a number of whales killed as a result. So I'm always looking for good news. November is the time most of the humpback whales head south to Hawaii and Mexico to give birth and breed.

There is a very cool exhibit on at The Hearth Gallery on Bowen Island, a virtual reality experience called "Texada." The show features a 17 minute documentary VR film about time, rock, islands and our place in it all. It's immersive and absorbing not just becasue of the medium, but also the story, a meditation on this small moment in time in the context of the biggest cycles of time that we are a part of.

I’ve had many conversations lately with friends and colleagues about the long term cost of isolation that is exacerbated by the ease of online connection. But, as folks who know my complexity work will know, connections and exchanges are two different things. I can engage in all kinds of people and bits and digital entities now. But why then are we more lonely than ever before?

TSS Rovers Men Tryout 2026

This is what our inlet looks like these days. Grey, wet, cold, and lovely. Fridays are for me. Since I turned 55 a couple of years ago, I've set aside Fridays for - whatever. Since my ADHD diagnosis last year, I've called Friday my ADHD day where I can just let my mind carry me into an unplanned day. Sometimes that means reading, sometimes it means spending the day outside, doing errands, seeing friends, playing music...lots of options.

Local Bowen Island businesses tucking into dialogue on the circular economy last night. Almost through a really busy month of travel and work which has been punctuated by some local volunteer work here on Bowen Island. It's always a tricky thing, to work as a facilitator in one's own home town, but I think it's important to do especially as I spend a lot of time coaching and supporting others to do so.

No, not a a post about facilitation tactics, just some notes on questions in different contexts: business, football and life hacks. Like these job interview questions from readers of The Economist. Some of these are truly anodyne, but some are interesting. And it gives you some insight into what an elite level job interview looks like (washing dishes at the CEO's cabin?).