{"id":736,"date":"2007-05-10T10:08:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/10\/inviting-chicago-mountain-of-care\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T23:32:27","slug":"inviting-chicago-mountain-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/10\/inviting-chicago-mountain-of-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Chicago, Mountain of Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the beginning, there was Global Chicago. Then the Global Chicago weblog, started three years — nay, four years ago (!) this month. <\/p>\n

When I went to London for the better part of a year, it became Pea Soup. Then Small Change News grew up next to it, and eventually merged in. In the last two years, it’s flown under a number of headings, including various combinations of Inviting, Practice, and Leadership. <\/p>\n

Recently, you may have noticed, it’s become Inviting Chicago, as my professional Inviting practice begins to settle into a new (and permanent?) home at the edge of the Chicago River. I continue to work nationally and internationally, with near-term focus grounded in updating an 80-year old classic Chicago bungalow. <\/p>\n

In conversations about developing a new Open Space website, in Korean<\/a>, Stanley Park shared this phrase — Mountain of Care — to describe Open Space. This describes so well what I aspire to in this blog, my professional practice, and now in this new house, that it feels just a bit silly that in four years of hacking about here, I couldn’t name it for myself. <\/p>\n

Slowly, slowly… I get there. In the practice and in the house. Met with an architect yesterday. Blew up the budget. (!) Back to work… piling up Life and plans and things as Mountain of Care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the beginning, there was Global Chicago. Then the Global Chicago weblog, started three years — nay, four years ago (!) this month. When I went to London for the better part of a year, it became Pea Soup. Then Small Change News grew up next to it, and eventually merged in. In the last … <\/p>\n

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