I’m coming off a long week in Oakland CA where I attended the non-profit #WebDevTech Summit and stayed in UC Berkeley’s coop Lothlorien. I’ll write more on that later I’m sure. Today I woke up late to breakfast served by jackie. We then went through our morning meeting and after taking a bit longer than expected …
Month: November 2014
Sleepy Day in Everett
Today I didn’t do much apart from drive a few of us to the Hibulb Cultural Center. This was the continuation of our celebration of Native American Heritage Month. Best idea of the day? Eating chili from a place down the street! 5 gratitudes: The fact that I get to wake up everyday and do awesome work with awesome …
Idle No More, Schooling in School
Today we had the pleasure and honor of hosting Sweetwater Nannauck who shared with us a talk on the history of colonialism. She focused on how American Laws have subjugated and destroyed native culture for the past 500 years. The aim of public education for native people is encapsulated in this quote: Kill the Indian, save the …
Drewing and Doings
Another week at ALC Everett! I’m coming off a big high from this weekend which was spent at the Bioneers conference at the beautiful Whidbey Institute Sanctuary on Whidbey Island, which I will post more about later. We started the week off by setting the week, I’m excited about tomorrow when our friend Sweetwater will be talking …
Building a Minecraft World
Today we had a really fun project, to build the Glacier Park property in Minecraft! Here’s the satellite image of the site. I took some measurements in Google Earth and put them on a picture for all the guys.Here’s where we got so far. I set some other intentions today, but didn’t get …
Cooking and Code
Today was the first day with our visiting facilitator @Abe! We played a new variation on our intention setting game. Rather than just go around in a circle stating out intentions we shared intentions in pairs, then we swapped partners and shared intentions again, after that we grew our groups and shared each other’s intentions …