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David Ing @daviding.com · 1d

Dai Kuang Wah Herb: Acupuncture for excess yang had needles in my hands, stomach, and lower legs, wired for electrical stimulation. Focus on meridians for spleen, stomach, liver and kidney. Relaxed for an hour, I noticed my vision had cleared and the brain fog was better. (Toronto, Ontario)

David Ing @daviding.com · 3d

Dim Sum King: Lowkong Society Harvest Moon Festival dinner with friends joining in on the diasporic Chinese Canadian experience. More semi-pro fan dancers and Cantonese singers on stage this year, we participated with enthusiastic Western pop songs and hiphop dancing. (Toronto)

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David Ing @daviding.com · 4d

Double header, Oct. 9 evening Americas, Oct. 10 morning Australia:

(i) #SystemsThinking Ontario Tracing sLab’s journey, and reinvigoration with #GregVanAlstyne + #PeterScott;

(ii) Transdisciplinarity, Session 5 with #ZaidKhan + #SamahKamalmaz .

Big program at events.zoom.us/e/view/L2wsp...

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David Ing @daviding.com · 6d

Mount Sinai Hospital: Cheery helium balloons by the escalator from the main (3rd) floor, up to the 4th. Visit with father to Special Care Dentistry, who handle complicated cases. Learned that no teeth can be better than rotten teeth that might infect the whole body. (Toronto, Ontario) 20251002

David Ing @daviding.com · 6d

Congee Queen Agincourt: Serving Cantonese chow mein to father, who decided he can serve himself. First time out of eldercare home since August, as we were advised to let him adjust to living in a new place. Early lunch for a day with a full agenda to evening. (Scarborough, Ontario) 20251002

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David Ing @daviding.com · 8d

Great China Herbs Centre: Chinese doctor sees patients Sun. and Wed. 10:30am to 1:00pm without appointments. Prescribed four large bags of raw herbs to brew, 4x volume that I've been given by other herbalists. Directions boil with water covering herbs, multiple days to drink decoction. (Toronto)

David Ing @daviding.com · 12d

Web video + peer-reviewed article for #WMSCI 2025 of Rethinking #SystemsThinking for #SystemsChanges Learning: Philosophizing, Theorizing, and Methodizing reduces 6 years of research in 12 pages (+5 for references) and 23-minute video. Warning, it's dense!
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David Ing @daviding.com · 13d

Clustering of ideas by 50 participants at CSI Summit by #StefanHostetter from Open Space hosted by #TonyaSurman. With energies refocused on single building, encouraging deeper involvement amongst members for initiatives. Follow-on scheduled for Nov. 4. (Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto)

David Ing @daviding.com · 15d

Web video "Pacing Changes with Living Systems: Rhythmic threads in textures, rhythmic textures of threads" by #ZaidKhan at #SysPrac25 #SCiO #OpenUniversity UK. Processual approach for 21st century #SystemsThinking
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David Ing @daviding.com · 21d

Feed The Fires | Sôhkêpayin Collective | InterAccess: In dark, quiet room, installation imagines AI expanding conversation in indigenous Cree-Metis style. Calm voice invites visitors to speak mind, responds with images on walls. Encouraged story of park (Toronto)
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Feed The Fires | Sôhkêpayin Collective | InterAccess

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David Ing @daviding.com · 24d

Peter Pan Bistro: Sunday lunch at #ThePerfectBite immersive murder mystery inspired by #KnivesOut. Clues on menu, clear slides dropped into coding frame, salt and pepper shakers. Family celebration of RDI's birthday scheduled separately from evening bash with friends. (Toronto, Ontario) 20250914

David Ing @daviding.com · 25d

Tarragon Theater, Bachelor Man: Staging of teahouse Toronto Chinatown July 1st, 1929, after Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923. Original #BachelorMan by #WinstonKam mounted 1987, confirmed by #BrendaKamino as November, due to newborn son. Actor #RobertLee now with white hair playing grandfather.

David Ing @daviding.com · 25d

Biidaasige Park: Urban Forestry Nature Tour, starting from uplands above flood plains, descending on the north loop to the Don River marshes. Learned ecological succession, balsam poplar, then silver maple, white pine, and dead trees to encourage natural evolution. (Commissioners Road, Toronto)

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David Ing @daviding.com · 27d

J. P. Plank House (circa 1873): Shoeshine stand more decorative furniture than functional service. Inside house built by Franklin E. Davis, as an agent for the Uxbridge Piano and Organ Company circa 1873, on a lot bought from John Plank. Building now adjoins funeral home. (Uxbridge, Ontario)

David Ing @daviding.com · 27d

Thomas Foster Memorial Temple: Next to cemetery where ancestors were buried, Thomas Foster contracted a mausoleum in style of Byzantium Christian churches, completed 1933. Foster was businessman in Toronto, retired, elected mayor in 1925, 1926, 1927. (Uxbridge, Ontario)

David Ing @daviding.com · 28d

OCADU Graduate Programs: Evening session with #DanielHoyer + #NealHalverson on What Can System Thinkers Learn from Quantifying History, moderated by #ZaidKhan. Continues work of #PeterTurchin on cliodynamics, with #SoDy as historical policy lab. Mix of cyclical historical framing methods from MRP.

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David Ing @daviding.com · 28d

Onsite Gallery: Garment worn by #RosalieFavell in adjacent (2003) Voyageur photograph, with a bright sash reflecting her Metis heritage. In that image, the artist portrayed Captain Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek Voyageur television series. Honouring Janeway's intelligence, dedication, diplomacy.

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David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 7

West Croydon bus station: With London Underground starting labour strike, lucky Superloop SL7 bus. From Croydon, almost 2 hours through suburbs to Heathrow Airport, fare is only £1.75. On the top level of the double-decker bus, we had a scenic tour of affluent and not-so-wealthy neighbourhoods

David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 7

Lancing Beach: Day trip south to seaside town on the English Channel, part of the Atlantic Ocean. Shingle beach of waterworn gravel is a playground for dog chasing (not necessarily fetching) balls. Winds well-suited for kitesurfing school, and the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm 20km off the coast.

David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 6

Tate Modern: Sonic installation #AbbasZahedi (2025) Begin Again space for collective processing of ecological grief. Musical composition shifts between harmony and disintegration, each collapse prompts piece to rebuild and begin again. Recycled materials of metal pipes.
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Tate Modern

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David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 6

Tate Modern: In East Tank, reimagining of #MariaMagdalena#Campos-Pons + #NeilLeonard (2017) Matanzas Sound Map for larger space in 2025. Blue teardrop-shaped vessels catch tears of ancient Greek mourners; yellow and brown sculptures reference sugar refining into rum.
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Tate Modern

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David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 6

Battersea Power Station: CelebrASIA festival features Sarawak Dancers from Borneo. Two coal-powered stations built 1929-1935 and 1937-1941, decommissioned 1975 and 1978, redeveloped by 2023 by Malaysian investors. Impressive architectural reconstruction, retail stores.
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Battersea Power Station

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David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 6

Dulwich Picture Gallery: Granite from Finland, Peter Randall-Page (2009) Walking the Dog I, II, III. Surfaces carved with an interlocking pattern evoking the Greek "walking the dog" key, also know as the meander motif of a river in Turkey. Sculptures outside the gallery more contemporary.

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David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 5

Tulip Stairs, Queen's House: First centrally unsupported stairs in England, copying Venetian model. Royal residence built 1616-1635 for Queen Anne (1574 – 1619) married to James I (1566 – 1625), and Queen Henrietta Maria (1609 – 1669) married to Charles I (1600 - 1649).
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Tulip Stairs, Queens House

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David Ing @daviding.com · Sep 5

Greenwich Meridian Line: Standing on Prime Meridian 1884, sea charts referred to Longitude 0. Greenwich Meridian is 102.5 meters west of the IERS Reference 1984, used by GPS. It's 19 feet east of Airy Meridian 1850 International Standard 1884, further 19 feet east of the Halley Meridian line 1721.