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?!?

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, Motti [...]

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 thought [...]

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 got an email about Pangea day - and it touched me.
Go to the site and watch the video/trailer. Or view it here, on youtube. Essentially it is a global event that takes place next year on various sites (think live earth etc) but shares films and music of the world - about the [...]

I have been thinking about this poem a lot the last few weeks: 
“As I dig for wild orchidsIn the autumn fields.It is the deeply bedded rootthat I desire,Not the flower.”- Izumi Shikibu, Japan (974-1034)

It is summer on this side of the world.
I am in the process of a ’start’ - I have started to [...]

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 own [...]

"Who Am I Alreay Now That I Can Be?"

- question thanks to Diederick Janse, at The Hub Amsterdam ’s Collaboration Day - thanks for a great conversation all!)

Can Image: Campbell’s Soup 1968 (c) Andy Warhol
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I tried to write this post on movement and the space between thrice - and lost it each time.
Rather than try to again recreate my lengthy notes and thoughts I have decided to put some notes I had written elsewhere below and took this as an opportunity to first share the [...]

 
‘We dance around in a ring and suppose…                                 The secret sits in the middle and knows.’  
- Robert Frost - (I first saw this line via Alan Stewart in 2005)
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"Stories move in circles.
They don’t move in straight lines.
So it helps if you listen in circles.
There are stories insidestories and stories between stories, and [...]