Archive for the ‘knowledge & wisdom’ Category

Bye Bye Stress

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

tx Si

I want to be wonderful

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

thanks layers&swathes

Logorama

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Can’t wait to see Logorama, the movie! Been waiting to post because everytime I found a video to embed it was taken off youtube etc….so now you can see the trailer here And watch full movie here, (presumably while it last’s) via kottke

Replace Fear of The Unknown

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity… another something via jellyfishheart

On Simplicity…

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

via George Whitesides’ genius inspiring TEDtalk, from TEDxBoston – watch it here.

Thoughts of time and space

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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 [...]

Songs from childhood and beyond…

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

(I recommend listening to this as you read) Over the last few weeks, whenever I started working on my family story project, I find myself taken back to a yiddish song my grandmother, Chana, used to sing with us…and all my grandparent’s knew: “Oifn Pripetshik” (also: oifen pripitchik, oyfn pripitchik). If you pressed on the [...]

Always Make New Mistakes

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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

I Invite you to Watch “The Story of Stuff”

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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 [...]

Real Change

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

What does real change look like?  I drew this up to amuse myself the other day while musing on real change at the same time as writing about organisational change processes for a client…and watching/dealing with the changes thrust upon people close to me … I actually think I first ‘created’ the doodle while working [...]