WELCOME ON BOARD

photos : Lyne Lefebvre Edmonton Airport and & BC skies, 2014
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WELCOME IN ALBERTA...BEFORE BC
I wanted to start this last residency journey by a short -arrival- entry although I am a little tired to journal.  I woke up at 5 am in Montreal to catch an 8 am plane to Edmonton, before a transit to Victoria. I arrived starving at 12h30 which was 15h30 home time for my stomach & brain. I also realized I had forgotten my computer battery on the morning table beside my coffee, since I made sure I was packed ready to leave the night before, only having the computer to throw in its pocket...

This panel intended as part of a touristic informational/educational statistics design/concept, greeted me and other Westjet travellers - who paid more attention to white boarding passes then blue airport boards- as we were walking down the corridor to board on the transit plane in Edmonton. I had just seen a beautiful green garden wall covering 2 floors and regretted not taking a picture for my first RRU/Victoria blog, when this -aren't they proud- sign strongly reminded me how jet lag isn't just a metaphor in environmental education. It's feels like a reality, a «certainty», «not a proof of truth» Maturana and Varela might say.  (p.18 from a pre-res Bowling and Hoffman - Bringing Peace into the room paper, I am too tired to reference properly cite).

It also felt in perfect harmony with Swenson and Rigoni's introduction sentence that each « progressive gain (we understand we can perhaps disagree here on the use of the word -gain- or see it as a cynical approach to acknowledgement) elicits a corresponding loss » (p.573). I taught to myself that the «revenge effect » (not here meaning a reaction to a feedback loop) could take place right there, in the airport's corridor, that I thought I knew.

Time for sleep, as I can see in my lack of imagination. Sleep is catching up with me.




Bowling, D. & Hoffman, D. (2000). Bringing Peace into the Room: The Personal Qualities of the
Mediator and Their Impact on the Mediation. Negotiation Journal, 16(1), 5-28.

Swenson, D. X. & Rigoni, D. (1999). Ethical problem solving and systems theory: The complexity
connection. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 12(6), 573-584.
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