“We hear again the voices out of our cultural tradition telling us that to have community, people don’t need a community center or recreational facilities or any of the rest …
Shirley Valentine (from the play by Willy Russell) …
We sailed for miles an’ miles. An’ we talked. Properly. An’ we didn’t half laugh. We liked each other. An’ isn’t it funny, but if you’re with someone who likes …
The American poet Kenneth Patchen writes …
There is in each life a quality, a special fragrance of the bone and of the flesh; individual, unmistakeable, exactly as it issued from the Spirit’s mold. A quality which …
Aimee Mullins on The Opportunity of Adversity
I’ve been exposed to more people who have opened doors for me than those who have put lids and cast shadows on me. All you really need is one person …
The Adjacent Possible
Excerpt from “The Genius of the Tinkerer” WSJ Online The scientist Stuart Kauffman has a suggestive name for the set of all those first-order combinations: “the adjacent possible.” The phrase …
The Star Raft as a ‘Temporary Autonomous Zone’
The BC sailor De Clarke named her hand-built sailboat ‘TAZ’, deriving the acronym from Hakim Bey’s idea of a ‘temporary autonomous zone’. Clarke speaks of Bey’s idea as “…a defiant, yet …
In Search of Your Calling
Seth Godin writes: I don’t think we have a calling. I do think it’s possible to have a caring. A calling implies that there’s just one thing for you, just one …
Why do we look for a metaphor?
Seth Godin writes in In Search of Metaphor: The best way to learn a complex idea is to find it living inside something else you already understand. “This,” is like, …
Amber’s Message: The spirit of the Star Raft
This was Amber’s message to a gathering of families, self-advocates and professionals in Augusta, Maine. It was her first keynote address! It’s about love. About always you and I together. I love …