“Several years ago I came up with the idea to collect and distribute all our families recipes – many people could cook really well – so young people had an opportunity to be able to cook the same things that their parents and grandparents cooked. But what we quickly learned was a lot of people [...]

"As Above, So Below As Within, So Without…" – Emerald Tablet Image I (c) Andy Goldsworthy; Image II (c) David Cavagnaro

Image: Echo (c) Steve Solinsky "Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again, But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves [...]

"You don’t reach Serendip by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings serendipitously." – John Barth, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor (New York, 1991) (via Richard Boyle’s version of "Three Princes of Serendip") *** With the help of some sailors and [...]

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 [...]

Been thinking about patterns and stories and…thought I would post these quotes to tag to some of the links / people that come up "A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each [...]

please be aware this may not make sense yet – as I am still making sense of my day and lessons, but I wanted to post what was emerging… Today has been a VERY long day. And I haven’t been awake for more than 11hours yet! It should, by all accounts, be a bad day. [...]

“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)   The strength of a tree is defined by its roots [paraphrased Rabbi Simon Jacobson] "A man is a bumdle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world" – [...]

"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 [...]