MORE THOUGHTS: Bob Maher

1) Ways of Knowing (Zita Cobb)
The perception of landscape is quite different if you drive a car at 100km per hour on Hwy 101 and go from one 'urban' centre to the next. The in-between piece becomes 'dead space'. Compare this, with walking through the landscape on an abandoned railroad. Here the surrounding space is full of interest and alive.

We all wear different 'coloured glasses'. This influences what we do and don't see in our landscape. This is one of ideas behind Maitri Space Awareness.

2) Language
There is a wonderful book by Trudy Sable and Bernie Francis called The Language of the Land, Mi'kma'ki'. I highly recommend it, from CBU press. It shows how language influences what we are able and how we are able to describe our environment.

3) We talk about abilities. We should also talk about dis-abilities. A strong team contains a mixture of both abilities and disabilities.


PS ...

on post-secondary institutions and rural communities. I think that Nova Scotia must have the highest density of post-secondary institutions/per square kilometre than any other jurisdiction.
What an opportunity !