Michael R. Dimock’s Blog
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Michael's Thanksgiving Day Blog |
November 23, 2007
Today is Thanksgiving Day. It is a very important day in our culture. It emerges from fact and has become mythologized and sanctified by time and official acts. My favorite President, Abraham Lincoln, made this day a national holiday during the Civil War, the nation’s greatest internal test of unity. One reality remains at the core of this holiday; it is the focus on food.
Food is life. If we are to give thanks we of course cannot forget food and its many sources. It begins with nature and the energetic, elemental, and biological cycles that underpin plant and animal bounty. It continues with people and the processes they manage to transform nature’s raw bounty into ingredients and meals. The diversity of these people and processes correlate to the diversity of ecosystems and species. The health of the elemental cycles and ecosystems directly affects the health and quality of the foods that arrive on our Thanksgiving table. Food of high quality leads to a high quality of life.
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Winds of Change & The State Board of Food & Ag |
By Michael Dimock
October 1, 2007
I love the fall in a funny way. Crisp and cool mornings, warm and still afternoons, darkness coming ever earlier. The sun is lower, its light more filtered and diffused. A slight sadness, soulfulness, permeates my psyche and the social gatherings of the season. I am surrounded by the end of harvest, death of plants, and of my own emotional attachments, large and small. All seems slower in my inner world.
At the same time, in this year at least (as I have forgotten the details of last year's fall season), the work world moves fast. Opportunity abounds. We are clear about what to do, where to go. More powerful allies are present. It feels like, it appears, that history is now on our side. Change is in the air.
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Opening Remarks of Michael Dimock, Session 1 Planning Fellows Retreat |
Opening Remarks of Michael Dimock
Session 1, Planning Fellows Retreat
May 15, 2007
It has been a long journey, four years actually since Roots of Change
was born, and this day marks the beginning of a new phase. We all know
the hardest challenges, the highest most rewarding climbs, take a long
time. I want to share my own and ROC's perspectives on this effort,
this experiment really, to actually knit a network of diverse leaders
with a network of diverse funders who share a passion and vision for
reforming a food system that has run its course based on principles and
practices framed and formed in an earlier era.
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Michael's Review of the Final Planning Fellows Session |
Below you will find a correspondence that Michael Dimock, Executive Director, sent to the ROC Stewardship Council immediately following the third and final Planning Fellows Session held July 10-12, 2007.
July 13, 2007
Dear Council:
I wanted to give you brief update on the final Planning Fellows Session. I am happy to report that we have succeeded in achieving our primary objectives. My assessment is based on both what the Fellows said and what I witnessed in the final three days.
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Michael's Review of the Second Planning Fellows Session |
Below you will find a correspondence that Michael Dimock, Executive
Director, sent to the ROC Stewardship Council immediately following the
second Planning Fellows Session.
June 25, 2007
Council Members,
I wanted to give you an overview of the second Planning Fellow’s
retreat including developments from Thursday, the final day. I am happy
to report that we have again achieved our goals: more trust, more
buy-in to both the process and to the work of the Vivid Picture
Project, and more collaboration. Plus, we began to integrate the
Council into the dialog: Rich Rominger, Larry
Yee, and Jim Cochran joined us with great effect.
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