I have been musing on the increasing myopia I am seeing in the world, both expressed physically, in part a response to the ‘tools’, eg computers, we use and lifestyles we lead, and mentally, in the time horizons set for businesses, the lack of sustainable futures focus, the fact that ‘5 years’ is long term planning.
This thought has popped up more [...]

What joy to discover Andy Goldsworthy - with thanks to friend and possessor of many gifts, Seanan. This man clearly speaks with our system.
- do you ever get that feeling when you learn something new: 
How wonder-full and amazing that this exists!
How amazing and wonderous that I went through life without knowing so until this [...]

"Man’s character is the product of his premises." - Ayn Rand
As I become more and more conscious of our physical surroundings/contexts, and how they are shaping (positive or negative) us I am increasingly having thoughts of living and breathing spaces, of "scultping spaces"…where things can move, energy can flow…yes yes, it like Feng Shui 
- and [...]

The short (and relatively clear):
My father, a doctor specialising in matters of the heart, once told me of a poster he saw at a cardiac conference in the USA depicting an obese person: "American’s*: OVERWEIGHT AND UNDERNOURISHED" it shouted.
I never forgot this line.
I found it so curious then, and so much more apt now:
If [...]

"Be who you are and say what you feel
Because those who mind don’t matter
And those who matter don’t mind"
Dr. Seuss

The short:
The Edge’s World Question Centre’s 2006 Question is ‘What is your dangerous idea?’. You’ll find 119 original essays are given in response and you can contribute your thoughts as well - I haven’t read through it yet but thought I would pass it forward already. Below is some background.
Happy thinking at the Edge! 
The long:
"The history of science [...]

"Muddy water, let stand - becomes clear" - Lao Tzu
In an earlier post I discussed wading through the sea of confusion as a necessary step for clarity to emerge.
Today I was passed onto a beautiful word "Clarts".
"Clarts means mud. It is English not alice in wonderlandish, dialect from Northumberland, the most northerly county in England where it [...]

"This quality [a living pattern language] in buuildings and in towns cannot be made, but only generated, indirectly, by the ordinary actions of the people, just as a flower cannot be made, but only generated from the seed"
- Christopher Alexander in "The Timeless Way of Building"
Am thinking and realising that:
- Dialogic spaces cannot be made, [...]

"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merily
Life is but a dream."

It seems so obvious, this little ditty we sung growing up - but until I was sent it in an email today by Paul, I didn’t concentrate on the words at all.

Go on - go back and read the words…

Interesting, no?

The words [...]

Solar calendar new year!
Hope you have/had a great one and looking forward to sharing 2006 (and beyond) with you all!