by mvboronowski | May 16, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Too often eating comes down to a separated and individually focussed regime. Each person reviews the menu and selects their own meal. I feel like steak and decide to choose it, despite sitting at a table with a bunch of vegetarians. My vegetarian friends order entrees...
by mvboronowski | May 13, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Many of the posts on this blog discuss the ways we create community through face-to-face interactions with friends, family, and neighbours. There are, however, times when we build our communities and society in more indirect fashions. Many of us give to charities and...
by mvboronowski | May 12, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
[Editor’s note: Recently, I left my job at the UBC’s Sauder School of Business (pictured above, my leaving is pictured below) for a job with UBC Career Services. Last year, Sauder launched the Community Business Project, an experiential and service...
by mvboronowski | May 11, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
This post is the last in my three-part series of growing tomatoes from seeds. The first post was on planting seeds and the second on transplanting seedlings into bigger pots. This final post is in transitioning seedlings outside. Around the last predicted frost is a...
by mvboronowski | May 10, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
What We Read The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton examines the nature of and our relationship with work – something that most of us will spend a good portion of life doing. De Botton takes a long walk with a man who loves powerlines, he sits with a...
by mvboronowski | May 9, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
“When one is lost it is not the number of days that matter, but the absolute uncertainty that claims every moment.” -Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow Roughly two weeks ago I arrived in Bariloche, a mountain town at the northernmost tip of Patagonia. Bariloche...
