Is now the same as then?
Have been contemplating this question on many levels:
- 40 year cycles - by my reckoning this is approx 1967. (compare and see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967)
- The speed of time
- Stories
- Business
- Change
- Poverty
- War
Access to:
- Food
- Health
- Education
- Wealth
- Rest and Reflection…
Am wondering what we learn and how we are growing and developing as individuals, as [...]

- Biz ethics (western countries) vs corruption (developing/middle eastern)
- does the developed world want the developing world to develop?
- where are the economic policies and theories that dont rely/incorp concept of a peripher?
- how much of $ spend on AID in your country vs military spending? - (gap perceived v actual)
- how do you measure [...]

I know that space for reflection and rest is important to recharge…and I also know that sometimes it is hard to give oneself permission. Here is to permission to taking some time out. And you don’t need to take a full few weeks - perhaps you want to take a walk/sit by the ocean or call a friend [...]

"If you have no sense, put down your sack and dance"
- Bouki sings Malice’s song, in Bouki Dances the Kokioko, as told deliciously by Diane Wolkstein
The world seems to have no sense at the moment (for such a tiny planet we really do know how to make a mess!), and I am feeling a bit stuck - [...]

Today’s blog post was going to be a quote from my dear friend, Lina Lipton - also, my grandmother’s best friend, a fabulous woman, vintage 1923.
She said to me on the phone
"Each of us: We have to save humanity. And, we also have to look after, and take care of, ourselves.
The little things you do, they [...]

A thought from a phone conversation with a friend today on reality being more than meets the eye
"Not everything that can be seen is real/true, and not everything that is real/true can be seen" - me (Natalie Shell)
(thanks to Einstein for the syntax: Not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that [...]

"Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen (with thanks to Niels via the ailistserv)

Synchronicity!? Another fabulous visual from Harold’s Planet

Well I’ve said it for a while, for instance here in November and I know there are a LOT of people who have said it before me, but it appears that failure is now all the rage - see Business Week’s cover story today ‘Failure Breeds Success’…
Following an amazing conversation with my friend Jochem Innovation and [...]

As I tend to be ever so passionate about the value and benefit of ‘real’ deep communication: conversation, dialogue, storytelling etc; I thought I would share some quotes I stumbled across that resonate and likely better communicate my reasons for these passions…hopefully they make you smile, or something else entirely - have a beautiful day!
“Misunderstandings don’t [...]