“From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts”
- Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life
I  started reading this book again. It’s surprisingly honest and engaging. Refreshing even. Argh, I sound like some scary mark-comm writer. Still, the sentence above struck me. And as I write it, it gets me thinking again…

Possibly also because [...]

Had a great day yesterday. Got to storytell, write and make clay-things, all part of my new attempts at work-life-balance. And today I had came across some nice inspiring art-design-maths-code-things I thought I’d share with you. Enjoy!
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project - mathematics, craft and highlighting awareness for our coral reefs all in one.

Stunning [...]

It’s raining. It sounds wonderful to hear the rain thump and slash and drip and clean and well, rain.
And it seemed as good a reason as any to begin posting again.
It feel likes forever, though it is more like a month, since I shared my thoughts via this blog.

Mostly I am thinking right now as [...]

As per- straight back to other work before completing creative work - really must be better about that!
…So to start the creativity going again, here are two opposing pieces (and artists) that caught my eye and inspired me in NY the other week:

Varus (c) Anselm Kiefer

Rome Pays Off (c) Jean-Michel Basquiat
The first is disturbing, perhaps, [...]

“Here is our long-forgotten family home.
And, having heard now and then the voice of ancestors calling,
Like a grey little forest bird, from far-away centuries,
I fly to you,…”

…It’s late, I’ve just finished some last minute work and I’m off to Poland on a “roots trip” with (almost) ALL my family very early tomorrow (actually today) [...]

With thanks to Joel for passing on a gem of an inspirational talk - I recommend this to everyone!
Ted talks: Jonathan Harris: The Art of Collecting Stories”…

Jonathan -any chance you want to collaborate one day?!?

I think I have been avoiding blogging (and you all) a bit…like a lot of my creative works…including storytelling… As such I would like to give you a present as thanks for your patience and readership: here are two beautiful art-pieces that have been passed on by the ever wonderful Alice Tang of think/feel that [...]

Walking through   I spied the above line drawing, (c) Markus Vater, in a (sadly closed) gallery window - and I quickly captured it, and Markus‘ name,  with my little mobile/cell-phone camera*for me to remember.
(*my times are changing, I do also jot in a notebook) 
Well today, I remembered him… Don’t you just love the [...]

I am fortunate to be ‘home-full’ - I have many homes around the world I am welcome. And I have lived in quite a few places…
As such concepts of ‘home’ are sometimes a bit abstract for me…Home can be where I am, where my family and friends are, where someone or something I love is. [...]

…thinking about fabric, and the fabric of our lives…
 
Fabric image (c) Natalie Shell 2007