Cormac Russell - Restore Commons

Cormac Russell is Managing Director of Nurture Development, Director of ABCD Europe and a faculty member of the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at Northwestern University, Chicago.

Cormac Russell’s Content

Strong Neighborhoods
Two siblings realized they hardly knew their neighbors and invited them to ...
Returning Death to Community
What’s possible when we explore the idea of death, dying and living ...
ABCD Workshop Coming to Cincinnati
You’re invited to participate in an engaging two-day Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) ...
Cormac Russell: Health Beyond Healthcare
In the UK, 40 percent of people engaging with the biomedical world ...
The Good Life Conversation
Cormac Russell developed a set of 25 questions to create more life ...
Exploring How Community Animators Work: Cormac Russell
Tune into this insightful conversation with Cormac Russell. Cormac, Managing Director of ...
The Paradox of the Marketplace
Cormac Russell’s article is right on the mark in identifying the root ...
Black Swans, White Swans, and Ugly Ducklings
Source: nurturedevelopment.org The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species ...

All consciousness begins with an act of disobedience.

Carl Jung

I fear one day I’ll meet God, he’ll sneeze, and I won’t know what to say.

Ronnie Shakes

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

Every time you add a highway lane, you slow down traffic.

Bross’s paradox

If I am ever stuck on a respirator or life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged-but not until I get down to a size eight.

Henriette Mantel

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Henry Miller

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

Leadership is willingness to have faith in a future we do not understand.

Clint Kemp

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

Most communities can be compared to a football game where 30,000 people who need the exercise turn up to watch 36 people who don’t.

Peter Kenyon

A part of kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

Our communities are broken. For the ones that look whole, the price is being born somewhere else.

Jim Keene

If your time hasn’t come, not even a doctor can kill you.

Meyer A Perlstein

Questions are fateful. They determine destinations. They are the chamber through which destiny calls.

Godwin Hlatshwayo

Lost luggage is an initiation ritual. It is an invitation to a simpler life.

Madeline Nold

Education is never neutral. It always involves a project…either keep things the same or change them.

Paolo Friere

I have tried to teach service to my husband and revolution to my son.

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When we meet, I am talking to myself and you are spying on me.

Leroy

Though the commons is everywhere, it is nonetheless little noticed. For economists, it is a kind of inchoate mass that awaits the vivifying hand of the market to attain life. Forests are worthless until they become timber, just as quiet is worthless until it becomes advertising.

Jonathan Rowe, Our Common Wealth

Revolution is not capturing institutions, it is discovering free space and enlarging it.

Paul Goodman

The power to call people a problem is the most injurious thing you can do.

John McKnight