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The potential of the dynamic attitude associated with humour is explored here as a means of sustaining the level of playful engagement in innovative change processes. This is contrasted with the tendency to quench enthusiasm through commitment to inflexible patterns that are increasingly unsustainable.

this is an ONLINE read, very fascinating correlations here.

""On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return." -Annie Dillard in Teaching a Stone to Talk"

"So where does this gospel message leave us as Christian communities now? In a situation where, I would suggest, bold experimentation is necessary - alongside a commitment to using and re-using the best of what we have inherited in ways that builds bridges rather than barriers."

Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is a documentary/public art project that grows out of local conversations about neighborhood goals in Southwest Ce...

Free, imaginative play is crucial for normal social, emotional and cognitive development. It makes us better adjusted, smarter and less stressed

Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can add to your blog or website. You can create historical timelines of important events, or build a timeline of your vacation. It's all up to you.

A comedy producer imparts some idea-generating tips he's learned on the job. This is an article from Mechanical Engineering Engineering Management, presented in March 2005 by Mechanical Engineering Magazine Online.