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Just finished another delightful conversation with Miss Beth of the Northern Forest. How I do love speaking with her. Always wishing she was closer, we could have real-time tea. And cookies, of course, the cookies!

Certain themes arose, I was telling her about the Self-Healing workshop I attended last night at WYS. I learned about some deeply cool ways of taking care of the body (great interest), many of which are attitudes we choose. Of course, gravitating towards the rituals, the physical acts we can perform, but those are the easiest, aren't they? Far easier to incorporate tongue scraping and bastii, than to incorporate new mental attitudes. Do you really think negatively about that thing, or is it just the negativeness you need? Hmmm. Nothing will change until we are deeply exhausted with what is happening now. Hmm x 2

Also really excited about the Ayurvedic principles and body types. This is someting I have heard about, circled around, but never have explored in a real way. It seems essential to understand your composition, before you can go any further in healing.

Now the question is, how long can I be sustained by on-line reading, and how long before I have to buy a book?????

We had our first training meeting for the Massive Change exhibit. Zoinks! Definately mind stretching ideas. We reviewed five of the eleven economies: Urban, Energy, Image, Market and Material. Underlying the whole exhibit is the idea of design as a capacity for change, for the betterment of society, as opposed to design as aesthetics. This exhibit was developed by the Institute Without Boundaries, a department at George Brown College in Toronto. When the VAG asked Bruce Mau to design this exhibit on the future of design, he decided that he would put together his team with post-graduate students, from all over the world. The result is massive, really big ideas about a really big thing, the world.

I will be exploring the information for each economy as the week progresses. But first, some ideas from the intro:

The welfare of the human race can be acheived through design.

I love this, I love that this show exists, and that thousands of people will have access to this idea, and that the meme will trickle into society, and change the choices we are making for living. This is not new ground, but certainly not a mainstream idea. And there is a marketing slant to the language used, an authority, which is usually the voice of the news, the mainstream, and I like that they have co-opted this language, and are pushing into this area. It's funny how people want to reject this authority, but I think it is a necessary choice to get attention.

Style is a decision of how we will live.

Can we go back to the boots here? If all things created were created with such beauty, attention to detail, functionality (yes, you can walk in them, they are quite comfortable), and care, what kind of world would we be living in?

Miss December

I had to try them on. And now I will be haunted forever ...

Monday, September 20, 2004, 8:30 a.m.
20/09/04

This morning on The Current, a group of teenaged girls in Boston set about combating the negative impact of music, which contains violent and sexist lyrics, by starting their own radio station.

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