Posts Tagged ‘stories’

Wangari Maathai & The Hummingbird

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

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 [...]

Made me smile

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

tx frenchbydesign

Lost Generation

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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 [...]

Cracks of Light & Leonard Cohen’s Anthem

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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 [...]