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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.
Read MoreTHERE’S NOTHING VIRTUAL ABOUT REALITY
There are great, even thrilling and vital new worlds to discover in virtual space. But it’s essential that narrative and story always direct the action, lest purely flashy but irrelevant sensations overwhelms the reason for spending time someplace that only pretends to be real.
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MY LAST BLOG
Every day, I’m aware that the number of times I might do what I’m setting out to do is like evaluating a helium balloon on the end of a string. It will float on the air, tied to a wrist, and by nighttime bob listlessly on the floor. Nothing lasts forever.
Read MoreTHE ACCELERATING FALL
When I walk into a book store I hear lives in chorus, humanity suggesting that it might have a redeemable essence, that we just might overcome the forces always trying to undo our best parts.
Read MorePLEASE! NOT "INCREDIBLE"!
By finding more accurate replacements for impotent, overused images, we enhance our ability to understand what each other means.
Read MoreDEMONS
Some people happily call it quits after a normal day’s work. But just ask any creative person you know: does that sound like a normal day?
Read MoreTHE MANY OPTIONS
There are more choices then there are days in a lifetime. More choices, always. Some people don't struggle with this. They take it as a statement of fact, as ordinary as the expectation that the sky will be blue. Why ponder the color of the sky? But I ponder, and I know others who do, too.
Read MoreDAYS AT SEA
The goals of these explorers are to advance scientific knowledge about life on earth, but the silent by-product is to prove that they’re actually alive themselves.
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