October 16th and 17th

Tuesday October 16 the dialogue will be at Second Cup in Kensington / Sunnyside, and Wednesday October 17 at Vendome. The dialogues start at 6 PM. (I’ll miss both because I’m visiting family in North Carolina.)

At our most recent dialogues we learned about the nuances and psychological benefits of weight-lifting; where to direct your blow or kick if you are receiving unwanted advances from a man; how to talk to your Member of Parliament; the very positive experience of growing up Muslim in Newfoundland by a young man who’s made a movie about it; the history of the bubonic plague in Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century; and how a community in Nigeria for a very long time provided for their own essential community needs independently of government (and how that independence and capacity faded away when the society and culture drifted toward isolation and consumerism).

The book shared was Truth: How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality by Hector Macdonald, a remarkably entertaining and easy read that can help you accomplish just about anything you might want to do.

Until next,

Arthur