Wangari Maathai died today. I heard her speak in 2005 at the Clinton Global Initiative. She was a lady who planted trees. Like Jonny Appleseed. Or the man who planted trees. She was certainly a hummingbird. A special woman who’s best was pretty darn impressive. Thank you Wangari. Thank you. The world thanks you. ps [...]
I caught this on the anthropologist and it has to be one of the nicest uses of multi-media storytelling I’ve seen: photography, writing, print/typography & film…by photographer David Eustace about his road trip with 16 year old daughter Rachel. At 2:07am on the 9th of October 1992 my life changed forever. My daughter Rachael was [...]
Happy New Year to you all! As part of my idea that this year I will be sharing stories & doing much more storytelling here is one of the most beautiful videos/digital storytelling pieces I’ve seen in a while, by Jonathan Reed* (from Nov 2007!) Here is the text. Read it and then read it [...]
The world is speeding up. Or this year has. And there is a TON of stuff going on. I feel that given I am not 85, where it could make sense to be June already, I am able to make this statement. I’m wondering whether the antidote is to slow down. Be extra slow? Musings [...]
The other day I mentioned to a friend in finance that I thought the markets were going to keep falling much more. “That’s rather pessimistic”, he said. My reply: “No, that’s me being optimistic. I actually think that they are going to crash burn and disappear*.” That’s my opinion and mostly I’ve been wondering for [...]
It’s about time, but slowly, over the next months, I hope to fill the new “Family Forest” section of my natalieshell.com with some of the pieces I have made or am making… Nothing is ‘perfect’ but it is important for me to begin to share them so I can begin to put this project ‘out [...]
Subscribe to think talk walk
© natalie shell 2005 - 2012