Ever felt time is speeding up lately? Feelings of disorientation and something not quite right or… simply how the hell is it already September? I asked a dear friend futurist and elder, Paul Shumann, about time and space in one of our dialogue-chats. He shared a thought experiment with me. And after the conversation I [...]

A recovering perfectionist, I find this an important maxim: "Always make new mistakes"    Thanks to hugh @ gaping void & esther.    

I would like to invite you to watch "The Story of Stuff". Have you ever wondered where all this stuff comes from…and where it goes when we throw it out? Created by Annie Leonard (and a team…) The Story of Stuff details exactly that – how stuff travels through our system! And it presents extremely [...]

A long time ago, or so it seems, I heard about a lecture. And though I never attended it, I can never forget it, either. I was visiting NY for the first time. After magical visits to Austin and Boston I found myself in Manhattan… While waiting in a bagel shop somewhere for my friend, [...]

 The other week I posted my favourite quote at the moment "Relax – Nothing is under Control" … Ok, so let’s say we accept that as true. Nothing is under control. But what if your situation feels more extreme than usual. If things really are spinning away differently from how we ‘planned’ or ‘assumed’. How [...]

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 [...]

Happy New Year – and thank you to all of you for being such great readers and friends! Last year was certainly a year of Story! As such, these days I get a lot of emails and things about story and storytelling from friends (thanks one and all – keep them coming please). And I [...]

                                Image: Perseverance (c) Harry Araten  Backstory / Story with image  Please note: not all this backstory relates to image/notion above – you may prefer to scroll down to ‘related stories‘ section…   *** "When is the best time to plant [...]

I was speaking to Simon the other night and given his background – expat parents, international school, two passports, religion, friends living in geographically disparete places and so forth…- and my own multi-natonal background and movements around the world, we had a conversation on identity and home…and how we feel parts of lots of places: [...]

I was suddenly reminded of a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago. He rang me up and asked me for a coffee because he wanted my advice. As soon as we sat down he began to talk about how he had been offered a very high profile job which in his [...]