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 [...]

"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 I am SO mindful that such questions as this one bring us back to what actions we CAN [...]

      ***  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 [...]

  ‘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)  * "Stories move in circles. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories insidestories and [...]

"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world. Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

This being human is a guest house Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may [...]

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story. Source The Hectare Lesson I recall years ago reading a scene in a book that has stayed with me since. I was about 11 and I think it was in one of Roald Dahl’s bio-works e.g. [...]

I think this is the most perfect ending I’ve ever read for a sad story. It’s by yiddish author, Sholom Aleichem, from the story ‘The Haunted Tailor’. "…don’t force it, kids! the ending is not a good one. It started very happily, and turned out, like most happy stories, very sadly. And since you know [...]

Reflecting on a source story*:The Well of Wyrd^… Please note – this post grew much longer than I expected and some of the details are for my learning that I want to also share…feel free to simply enjoy the story / share your thoughts on its meaning. "…And then I learned my first source Story: The Well [...]

I don’t read enough poetry. Or write enough. Somewhere I have a bit of an anthology loosely titled "of mirrors and mississipi rhyme". Poetry is at once, so big and so small…the dance between the edge and beyond…the visible and invisible. If the world we live in today is described by the thinkers and artists [...]