This week, I visited Integrity Printing in Bridgetown to pick up Volume 7 (2022) hard copy of my blog texts. This allows me to visit previous years’ work.
For example, under GoGeomatics for February/March:
- Feb 28, 2013: The Story of COGS.
- Mar 2, 2015: Geography Education: First thoughts from Haida Gwaii.
- Feb 9, 2016: Remembering Roger Tomlinson & Early History of GIS in Canada.
- Feb 15, 2017: Event Recap: COGS, CIG and GANS cooperate for Mapping workshop.
Under the Ernest Blair Experiment:
- Feb 16, 2017: A Proposal: Crowd sourcing and Citizen scientists.
- Feb 16, 2018: Landscape and Food: hidden gems of the Creative Rural Economy.
- Feb 18, 2019: Smart Rural?
- Feb 18, 2020: A Place, a Time.
- Feb 18, 2021: Glad Tidings.
- Feb 17, 2022: Exploring rural Nova Scotia.
- Feb 24, 2023: Community Development (this blog).
Reading Jim Lotz, the Lichen Factor, he describes a number of community development projects including the Prince Edward Island Ark (John Todd) and L’Arche ( Jean Vanier).
Lotz quotes Vanier, Community and Growth 1979 (p.199)
“People can only put down roots in a community when that meets their deep and secret desire and their choice is free – because putting down roots, like any commitment implies a certain death. We can only welcome this death if there is a call for a new life that yearns to grow.”
References
Jim Lotz, 1998, The Lichen Factor: The Quest for Community Development in Canada, UCCB Press.
Jean Vanier, 1979, Community and Growth: Our Pilgrimage Together, Griffith House, p70.
Acknowledgements.
Heather has been tending these orchids in the bathroom window for several years. Edward has added the graphics and links.
Ernest Blair Experiment 