Things that consume our energy and our attention today will be completely irrelevant in a surprisingly short time from now.
Read MoreFUNAMBULISTS
If you’ve decided to do something that does matter, you’ve decided to step off the platform and dare yourself not to freak out. You’re now a funambulist, and while you’re on the tightrope, there’s nothing else to do in the world but focus on the task at hand.
Read MoreCLEAN DESK
I seem to be in an eternal rearguard action with my desk. It drives me crazy. But, lo and behold, I think I’ve finally figured out how this mess always happens.
Read MoreEPHEMERAL SOUND
It’s as if the extension of our media expectations recalls some unfathomable ur-media, like what the Leakeys might have encountered if Lucy had been propped up in a Flintstones editing suite somewhere in the ancient Olduvai.
Read MoreTHANKSGIVING 2016 -- Creating Value
To be successful with others we obligate ourselves to create worlds of civility an sensitivity. We obligate ourselves to tune in to others in our space, even as we desire to let our own guards down so that others can tune in to us.
Read MoreACTING WITHOUT THINKING
The process of successful creation is intangible. I know there is sky above me and I know there is air all around me and I know that the air around me connects directly to the sky above me. Somewhere the two meet, but the dividing line is a fiction of language, a function of our senses being given over to words. There is no dividing line between air and sky, but we describe the expanse of blue overhead as something different than the wind moving leaves on the trees.
Read MoreTHE LIFE SPAN OF LOVE LETTERS
Ask a historian or archaeologist if there’s value in so-called archaic, ordinary letters, and the answer is obvious. But ask someone who’s just broken up with a long time paramour and you’ll get a different answer.
Read MoreINTERLOCKING PARTS
The camera looked like an artifact collected from an archaeological dig of the future...
Read MoreYOUTH
Where experience teaches us vital things that youth can never approach, it’s principally in our early years that we have an opportunity to get the biggest bang from new experiences, to try them without tarnish, without ossified preconceptions that accrue with age and obligation.
Read MoreBURNING MAN
The honest-to-goodness, grab-you-by-the-shoulder interesting stuff is over here, out on the edge, just before the rest of the world discovers it. You can aspire, but if you want to be a real part of that genesis culture, you can't pretend. You have to dive in and be honest about it all the first place. Acts of honest creation cannot be easily bought.
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