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Musing Over Community Capacities

Posted on Oct 5th, 2009 by Adrian Pyle : Fascinated by the Mystics Adrian Pyle

  In an address to the "From Clients to Citizens Forum" , at the Coady International Institute , the co-director of the Asset Based Community Development Institute John McKnight made the following wonderful comment (amongst... More »

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Dreaming of an End to Human Waste (not that type)

Posted on Sep 8th, 2009 by Adrian Pyle : Fascinated by the Mystics Adrian Pyle

My "wonderings" from yesterday re-minded me of Bliss Browne's beautiful understanding of "Trinitarian" wholeness. In this she refers to the "recycling symbol" as a symbol of perfect giving, perfect receiving and nothing wasted. In thinking... More »

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Overcoming Anti-Activist Friction

Posted on Jul 30th, 2009 by Adrian Pyle : Fascinated by the Mystics Adrian Pyle

I love to read of initiatives that get diverse people in neighbourhoods together to explore ideas and then provide seed funding to reduce anti-activist friction. Here is one from a newspaper article a couple of... More »

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Voices Finally Heard

Posted on Jul 26th, 2009 by Adrian Pyle : Fascinated by the Mystics Adrian Pyle

Reading a fascinating blog entry at a fasinating blog , I found myself deeply appreciating the following paragraph. It somehow captures something I understand about " the messiah being amongst us " - created through our... More »

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