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This should really be two Blogs, but laziness applies so it will be ONE blog, I'll try and be succinct.

Blog ONE: 2 weekends ago I flew to San Franscico for some climbing punishment. Michele whisked me off on Saturday with Cherie and pretty soon there I was jamming my tender tooties into places they had no business being... like skinny cracks between granite rock. I do have to admit to liking the jazzy tape gloves we make. And they aren't just for show thats for sure... I missed a teensy spot by my wrist which was soon sporting a nice little abrasion!

The weather was about 30 degrees and I'm sad to say I was hunting for Shade. Most of the day I wearing a long sleeve shirt to avoid burning until it cooled off abit. Michele was being all BURLY in her tank top but missed a couple spots with the sunscreen, burn baby burn.

Michele was giving me excellent advice on technique getting up a crack although I wasn't always following what she wanted me to do. Cherie was an expert at lounging, she's a master at it. But she was up there climbing too!

Day two we were in Lake Tahoe and I thought that was pretty cool, to be in a place I had only heard about. Our first night after climbing we headed to this Rib BBQ place, a meat lovers delight and there's these 3 skinny chicks (us) CHOWING down, it was a beautiful sight, Cherie is a master eater too, she is a woman of many talents.

Blog TWO: Friday I wrapped up my year of study with Leadership Calgary. The last 2 months have been devoted to meeting with my study group (6 of us) as we prepared our Learning Day for the class. Pioneer Leaders + Adaptive and Malaptive capacities of communities. If the topic sounds vague well it sure did to us too! It took us quite awhile to even figure out what we wanted to speak about. Eventaully we got focussed that 2 people would teach about Pioneer Leaders, 2 others wanted to tackle Spirituality and Leadership, Holly and I decided to look at the Community aspect. I chose to Research the country of Bhutan. Holly looked at the Canadian First Nations community and virtual communities like Facebook.

I definitely did learn alot through "doing" and you really have to understand the material to get up in front the whole group and provide them with something insightful and informative.

So 10 months of thinking about Pioneer Leadership, the Human Venture, Tools of Wisdom and Judgement, thoughtscape, actionscape, adaptive and maladaptive positioning and a WHOLE lot more has come to a close. But I know that all this course did was stoke the fires of my own curiousity and my deep seeded discontent with the way things are in the world.

2 quotes from our teacher Ken Lowe will stay with me:

"You are always more ignorant than you are wise" and

"There is no room for dispair"

Lets hope I remember that.