Monthly Archives: June 2019

Being Adaptable: A Reminder List

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image from PXHERE, CC0 It’s been about four years since I produced an updated version of my rather complicated Community-Based Resilience Framework. The revisions I made then had already begun to acknowledge how little we can actually do to prepare ourselves … Continue reading →

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Did Early Humans Have Selves?

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image by Neil Howard on flickr CC-BY-NC2.0 Ontology is “a gathering of or speaking (-logy) about ‘what is, what exists’ (onto-)”. The suffix -logy has come to mean a study or science, but originally it just referred to something said … Continue reading →

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Links of the Quarter: June 2019

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Dave Pollard

image of the Maldives by David Mark from Pixabay, CC0; the islands will likely be completely submerged due to sea level rise from glacial melt by mid-century I’ve recently updated the (highly subjective) list of my ‘best’ 94 posts. That’s out … Continue reading →

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Things I Do While Waiting, Hopelessly, for the Dawn

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Dave Pollard

photo by Vahap Kìlüken from pxhere, cc0 The expression the dark night of the soul seems to resonate with a lot of people. It’s used as a metaphor for times of extreme personal, often existential, doubt, angst, hopelessness, depression, meaninglessness, purposelessness, … Continue reading →

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