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You have to live spherically–in many directions. – Fellini I caught this line while watching a movie yesterday. It makes me think. Opens me up. Thank you Fellini…

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

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen Can’t get these words out of my head!!! Saw them written on a page two nights ago and memorised until could get to my computer and share. I want [...]

via reminds me of a guy I once heard speak who said ‘step out of the box – we wake up on a box, eat cereal from a box, drive to work in a box, sit in a box, in front of a box, drive back home in the box, to our box, sit in [...]

“From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts” – Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life I  started reading this book again. It’s surprisingly honest and engaging. Refreshing even. Argh, I sound like some scary mark-comm writer. Still, the sentence above struck me. And as I write it, it gets me thinking again… [...]

These two quotes catch me today. I read the first and my mind said “Guernica” for an image and “Christopher Alexander” as an antithesis, or antidote or…somewhere in me, Simon and Christopher’s words connect. And Picasso’s landscape challenges, as does Andy’s, but in a different way…I guess my brain will catch up with my intuition [...]

“Here is our long-forgotten family home. And, having heard now and then the voice of ancestors calling, Like a grey little forest bird, from far-away centuries, I fly to you,…” …It’s late, I’ve just finished some last minute work and I’m off to Poland on a “roots trip” with (almost) ALL my family very early [...]

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

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 [...]