celebration of the city

17 09, 2016

What Month Should Celebrate City Day?

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:18+00:00September 17th, 2016|Categories: C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Emergence, Integral Maps, Storytelling - Cultures|Tags: celebration of the city, city, City Day Month, Fall, Gaia's Reflective Organ, human hive, September, September 11, Spring|1 Comment

If I were going to choose a month to celebrate City Day, I would propose September. Why? Because it is the start of Spring in the southern hemisphere and the start of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere. One season embraces new life and the other early harvest. Both seasons hold promise and natural impulses for celebration. [...]

11 09, 2016

City Day: Why Don’t We Celebrate the Most Complex Human System?

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:18+00:00September 11th, 2016|Categories: A. Contexting Intelligences, C. Collective Intelligences, city, D. Strategic Intelligences, Integral Maps, Meshworking, Storytelling - Cultures, Voices|Tags: 911, Barnett, Brussels, celebration of the city, City Day, culture, Delhi, Earth Day, emergence, Fifteenth Anniversary, Friedman, holons, integral city intelligences, Moscow, New York City, NYC, Orlando, Paris, Richard Register, San Bernardino, September 11|2 Comments

Celebration MIA On this fifteenth anniversary of both the infamy and redress of New York’s 9/11 World Trade Center attack, I look around the world at the many days we set aside as celebrations and I am struck by a major omission. We celebrate the planet with Earth Day. Most nations celebrate a Nation Day [...]