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When visitors think of PEI they usually imagine us in summer - lush green vistas.
But us locals experience winter for 5 months of the year.
Here is the morning after our first storm of the year.
The main house
The wing
The barn
We have been digging for about an hour - 3 of us and I will post some after pictures later - after I have taken some more wood in. Oh the life in the country!
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Fred has already pointed out the value of dogs as dishwashers at Christmas
Mildred and Jay have also been very useful
Pussee has also reinforced the point that for Cats its the wrapping that counts
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Dina points us to a remarkable effort by Wikipedia that has a very comprehensive coverage of what happened and also the casualty list by nationality and place. Amazing!
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Hope was on her way to Laos and should be safe. She was in the coast of Thailand just a few days ago. Hopey, if you are reading this please drop us a line.
We so often our safety for granted. It was 2 years ago that Hope, Robin and I were on a beach for 2 weeks that must have ben swept away. I feel for all those that have been affected and all those who do not know how their loved ones fare
Dina has an excellent coverage of how this is affecting India
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Help!!!!!!!
I have just decorated the tree and the Cat, Pussee, (aka TSFC "That Stupid F Cat" as she is known by the dogs) now sees the tree, the ornaments and the presents and her ultimate toy. Any advice on keeping her alive through the holidays as she does her best to undo all my hard work?
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This Christmas, the drivers at Pat and the Elephant will be working flat out to help people like my mother, who is completely disabled, have Christmas with their families.
They give up their Christmas so that we can have ours. Thank you to all the gang and to Margaret whose endless kindness and humour makes every day seem like Christmas
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I have written frequently about John Boyd.
Here is the complete link That has all you might want to know about this remarkable man.
My favourite quote concerning the choices that many of us face is:
"...one day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go that way and you can do something -something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself."
Most importantly Boyd would close, "If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself." "To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?"
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Via John Robb Chet Richards stunning application (1.9 mgPPT) of Boyd's OODA thinking to Iraq.
This is a summit piece of simply outstanding quality. Not only does it put forward an assessment of Iraq that has no equal but the ideas contained apply to the new 4th generation business model.
Quite the best piece of intellectual heavy lifting that I have seen. A wonderful combination of ideas and action presented in a compelling format
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In the last 6 months, I have felt a growing murmur in the Blogosphere: that we are indeed on the brink of a new way of thinking about how society works and that the power of social software may have the type of effect as the press did in the 16th century in spreading the word.
I say this because, I am feeling myself the tentacles of the inquisition. I see that others too have felt the heat of the fire.
My response will be to set up a new site in January where I and a few others will showcase both the new and the efforts of the old to squash the new. It is my hope that the more light we shed on those who are the"Luthers" of our time the more we protect them and the more we strengthen the underlying message that we can build a new business culture that serves mankind and all life.
I am working on an introduction for this site. here is my first attempt. Please tell me how I can sharpen this.
500 years ago a small group of people could not sit quiet while the great cultural institution of the day fell into self-serving and corruption. This small group tried at first to reform from within but could not. They instead offered Western Europe a new vision. You could talk to God directly, your actions and not destiny drove your life and your salvation, and you could act with others to build and protect your community. You no longer needed an institution to broker these relationships.
The press gave this movement the power to overcome the determined reaction of the prevailing power. The press gave men and women their voice for the first time since the Agora in Athens.
Our business culture is a great grandchild of this revolution. Born as a force for freedom and democracy, born to support ideas based in observation, over time it has become what it replaced.
The great wheel of time has come full circle. Once again a small group of people have given up their attempts of internal reform. Once again, they look to how business can serve mankind and not a few men. Once again they seek to replace the institution with direct relationships between men and women. Once again, they seek to replace dogma with the observed design and ways of nature.
Once again a new technology for communication has arrived to aid this group to spread the word. Once again, the voice of people is being heard around the world and those that control the media, like those that controlled the pulpits and the church lists of approved texts, tremble.
This site is dedicated to spreading the word. Welcome.
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