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Apr.15.2013
Is there merit in unstructured time … what do you think? Is it only for children, is it a luxury, a waste, or an opportunity to shift perspectives, discover your passion, break the mould and loosen up your ideas of reality? I don’t see unstructured time being much encouraged, or its lovely...
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Mar.05.2013
"No, no," say you. Civilization has been ending for so long that it is literally going out with a whimper and not a bang. "But it is worse than that," say I. The bang has a silencer on it. The whimper does not reach the intensity of a murmur. Civilization now literally expires with a sigh. [DE...
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Feb.19.2013
Less than 80 years ago, across the world, only about 200 televisions sets were in use. Today, a simulated reality confronts us with our collective mind. A click away, we sample the zeitgeist and witness some disturbing trends, like the continuous robbery of world resources.
How...
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Feb.12.2013
Sometimes when we are in town, and always on Fridays, we go to this great coffee place called Lux. It's hard to describe Lux, but it's kitschy and cool and mismatched, it all comes together and the energy is pretty special.
On Friday's they have a DJ that has a grey foo man choo. He's...
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Dec.15.2012
I recently wrote and directed a short play, a sometimes daunting, often surprising and always humbling experience.
One afternoon as I sat in a library in Orinda, California, I experienced one of those rare events we all hope for and which never seem to happen; the play...
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Dec.15.2012
Tragedy and Book Premise
Yesterday our country experienced yet another tragedy. Mothers will no longer raise their young daughters. Fathers will no longer parent their sweet sons. Teachers will return to their classroom with fewer students. ...
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Oct.09.2012
This morning I received an email from a friend who is working on a book that describes a literal journey he took as a means to tell the story of the metaphorical journey that he experienced.
One of the key moments of his book is when he asked a Russian man he met while walking down the street what...
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Sep.20.2012
The past few weeks have been a lesson in the power of writing, or perhaps, the powerful need to keep writing even as life goes through a few bumps and changes.
I am busy now with three projects and potentially a couple more, but in the midst of this a relationship that was hugely important and...
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Sep.16.2012
The word "culture" and "cultivate" have the same root in Latin. Cicero wrote about "cultura animi," or the development of the spirit as one also develops fruits and grains through watering, nourishing, pruning and harvesting them.
The notion is that one, or a group, brings something...
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Sep.14.2012
My husband and I have affectionately nicknamed our five-year-old son “quiz master”. Dinner, car rides and quite moments are now his opportunity to ask us a variety of questions, rapid fire and nonstop. I’d always heard that children enter a phase where every statement is followed by the...
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