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 [...]

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." Elwyn Brooks White, 1899-1985 American Essayist and [...]

When was the last time you received a postcard in the mail? Today I had the pleasure and joy of receiving a postcard with personal message from Emma. The postcard followed a conversation with Emma, Rebecca and others about storytelling, and also, the various ways to bring people of all ages, including the 20-40year old set, to a Storytelling Festival [...]

Overview Below please find a musing on the gift of silence, and a lesson learnt through conversation, and some tools and resources. Or perhaps, simply take this as an invitation to enjoy a moment of silence and enjoy that?             I (and other readers) would be interested in hearing your own experiences [...]

I haven’t watched the TV news regularly for a good 2 years now. I do occasionally read the newspaper, but mostly enroute to crossword/sudoku…though I do listen to what people are talking about, and if need be will run a quick search and skim, for the most part, I find it easy enough to be well informed and live [...]

Google Blog Search : Yet another addition to the search service offering by google, Google’s blog search is currently in Beta. What do you think about this? As I think about this search feature I see both "amazing" and "cause for concern": On one hand the individuals/groups usifg blogs/sites with a blog interface are able to make their mark more easily, and in many [...]

"Nobody ever died of a question." – Yiddish Proverb Though I imagine a lot of people live(d)!

Please note: This is version 1.0 in an evolving story. Please add comments about what worked/not for you. If you had the answer to the cure for cancer because of your particular way of thinking about things, would you keep it secret? What if everything you are carrying is as significant to someone else’s world, and the world at large, as [...]

"Art is not about the object itself, any piece of art is a vehicle to bringing you an experience, to provoke a thought, an emotion or a new perspective. The art is the experience you have with the piece" I just ‘discovered’ an artist who speaks to me: Mackenzie Thorpe and just had to share. I [...]

I have been pondering the concept of ‘being human’ a lot lately. Perhaps it is a response to our increasingly machine-metaphor world. Perhaps it is living in NY, perhaps it is just something I am interested in…whatever the reason a dear friend and colleague Joep said something yesterday that rung extremely clear and true "I [...]