My Way or the High Way People get very ugly around election time. The natural polarizations in our societies get magnified. The drama of win/lose is in the air. People are insisting: “My way is the right way.” How Do We Find Common Ground? My sense is that the drive to be right is an urge to create safety, a predictable world where we can feel at home, and a way to try to create peace. With six billion points of view in the world, this strategy is unlikely to succeed.

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Book Review: The Practice of Peace.  Harrison Owen.  Open Space Institutes, Bellevue, Washington, 2003. usa@openspaceworld.org                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Humans Can Accomplish Amazing Things Together Now that Hurricane Gustav has passed, the people of the U.S. are beginning to appreciate what didn’t happen in New Orleans. Three years after the horrors of Katrina, in the days leading up to Gustav’s impact on the still-recovering city, what we saw was a marvel of well orchestrated and coordinated activity by local, state and federal authorities determined to  safely evacuate it ahead of time.

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