Well it was one of the most challenging days in my travelling life. Our plane left late from Halifax so we missed our connections in Toronto. I couldn't find my father for a time at the Toronto airport but since we both knew where we were flying out from it didn't much matter. Then our bags didn't make it. They arrived this morning at 1 AM which was wonderful!
Last evening we heard Dr. Lowell Catlett from New Mexico State University. His speech was titled Smart is Beautiful. He spoke about Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs and how we have entered into the middle part of the triangle the love and acceptance place. He explained that was or is a luxury to one generation is a necessity to the next. That people are doing things smarter. That we need to open our minds and pay attention to what is around us as we more head into the next generation. And, I like this one, it is a multiple objective world.
He suggested we look up www.heartmath.com.
He also repeated that healthy humans can not be separated from plants, animals and people.
It was a great way to begin to two day conference openning our minds and basically awakening to what is around us and the possibility of what may lay ahead.
I hope you all have a wonderful day. Today I will take in No Straight Road: how can family farm businesses seize the opportunities from volatility and change? and Maximizing the Profitability of Each Production Unit Through Scenario Analysis (I might need some extra strong green tea for this one:)) and that is all before break.
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs makes me think of the people in Haiti - because of circumstances, they are struggling just to maintain (or re-achieve) the lowest levels on the hierarchy.
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