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. [...]

"The world of two. Now one" - Natalie Shell
More in storyworld - above is my first play with nanotales - 6 line stories and so forth. Certainly it isn’t Hemingway’s:
"Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn" 
 But it is fun to practice and I thought it was a good entry into this article on Nanotales in The [...]

Listen to the sound, listen to the music!
Image (c) Kandinsky - thanks to Oren

Synchronicity!? Another fabulous visual from Harold’s Planet

“The power of co-creativity – where two or more are gathered the future is created”
And it is more fun. (You might want to read this once you get started)

"Ned was the only one who thought to look up…"
One of the fabulous collection by Sloane Tannen, in a fun book I got a few years ago "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same". I was actually trying to find the image in the book that had an adorable edler chicken in a wheelchair, with presumably, his grandson, [...]

I just discovered, (thanks Kirst), Harold’s Planet and have spent the last minutes playing on the Harold’s Planet Blog
…oodles of fun and … just lots of fun really…

Well done to Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar from Last Lemon Productions
…couldn’t resist a second image:

Enjoy the good mood and the seabreeze!

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"Does this frighten you?" asked Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince in 1945.
"Does this frighten you?" I ask in 2005.
Certainly it frightens me.
But it frightens me more if it doesn’t frighten you!
Because the image is not of a ‘hat’.
It is a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
[Hint: If you keep [...]

This great project works at the intersections of immigration, youth, community and technology/social media
I love when people take things and combine them in wonderful ways, especially when they elevate communities and engage difficult conversations in a positive way! Well done to Josh Levy and everyone involved in the Bronx Blogging Project.
I also like that this project is a great [...]

What things do you know for sure?
I transcribed below’s list from a wall at Andrea Zittel’s Critical Space exhibition in NYC - at the Chelsea Museum.
It resonated with a lot of things I know (to varying degrees of surity) and definately mirrors things I am known to say…but with far greater clarity!
These Things I Know for Sure:
"1. It is a human [...]