Garden Networks

Back from the Authentic Leadership in Action (ALIA)

conference in Victoria, B.C.

Spent time there with Tom Hurley and Keith Webb

thinking about patterns - in organizations - and nature. 

Now getting grounded back home, 

I wander into the garden, 

looking for patterns . . . 

Disappearing Words

I recently heard that the Oxford Junior Dictionary 

has removed a number of words from its new edition, 

replacing them with words they feel our technology-driven children 

need more - like database, chatroom, analogue, broadband, bullet point, etc. 

Here is a sampling of what has been left behind. 

I write them out to hold them near, alive and singing, 

resonant names of our natural world . . .