As many of you know we have been on a quest to find a place to live for many years now. I wrote a post about it a couple of years ago which outlined all the things we have been looking for and the bi...
I was nominated to be a New Revolutionist (by Sally East), a portrait project featuring women in America who are making their marks in their corners of America (created by the talented Laura Burhenn)...
I don’t think there is a way for those who work in service to the earth — for environmentalists, ecologists — to really woo our culture back into a reciprocal or sustainable relatio...
Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of...
The Society for Exploratory Research has a new temporary location in Køge Denmark! You can read about the show that is currently being installed here. Opening May 4th, 2012. I am very excited about i...
Dear Bethan, Yes this response is for you (and the hundreds of others who write me and I have not had time to respond to of late). I apologize for writing you back in this manner but it occurs to me ...
Speaking Drawing from Michael T. Bullock on Vimeo. One of my husband’s good friends (and mine too) is Mike Bullock (a genius artist and experimental musician). He has done a series of Speaker D...
[colorless leaf, found in yard, march 23, 2012. Moist, not dry. Not exposed to light?] “Meaning, according to my friend, arises from meeting, from the felt contact between oneself and what is n...
Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping,…Stop it and just DO!… Don’t worry about cool, make ...
Walking induces a trance like state that allows the mind freedom and ease and encourages exploration of odd possibilities and improbable connections. -Annie Proulx, from Bird Cloud pg 194-95
[found on my walk, Feb 22, 2012]
[polka dot leaf, unaltered, found on my walk, Feb 19 2012] A child raised to believe that a mountain is the abode of a protective spirit will be a profoundly different human being from a youth brough...
[pencil eraser print] O imagination, you who have the power to impose yourself on our faculties and our wills, stealing us away from the outer world and carrying us off into an inner one, so that eve...
My piece for the Nowhere Island project is live. Hope you enjoy it!
Research link: The Utopian founders were seers; they understood the hidden but pre-established language of the world; they had no need to create a second language, it was enough to be receptive to th...
I have so much going on. It is all so wonderful that I have to force myself to sit back and let it all sink in. I have some exciting things for you too dear reader, but as usual I cannot talk about t...
I am incredibly honored and flattered to have been asked to participate in the Nowhere Island Project created by artist Alex Hartley as a part of the next Olympic Games. Alex has created a new nomadi...
This is a game created by Bruno Munari found in his book Flight of Fancy. “Let’s imagine a land flat as a sheet of paper, in fact let’s take a sheet of paper and a black felt-tipped...
Playing with Bruno Munari’s book/game. I picked up a few things from Corraini, all Bruno Munari things that I didn’t have. The big hit with my son is the Plus and Minus game, it’s t...
Have I shown you this? No? It’s one of my proudest achievements. Published by Corraini, the same publisher of Bruno Munari. I cried when I found out. Not joking. As you well know, Munari is one...
Wreck This Journal and Wreck This App are included in O, The Oprah Magazine in the February 2012 issue (p. 121) in a piece about creativity books!
from Buckminster Fuller. In the context of design and changing the world. Found in the film “The World of Buckminster Fuller”. Reminds me of the question Charles Eames would ask before be...
“What is the value of preserving and strengthening this sense of awe and wonder, this recognition of something beyond the boundaries of human existence? Is the exploration of the natural world ...
and now it is here. Hundreds of you wrote me actually, (one person threatened to boycott my books over it). The bestselling Wreck this App is now available for Android, also at Barnes & Noble. J...
This is a story about a rug. Or should I say rather, about a rug that tells a story. Though I don’t know what the exact story is. Here is what I do know… On the wall beside my bed is a ru...
…where I was on an expedition searching for polar bears. actually that’s not true. but we did have a run-in with a very old one-eyed porcupine who blocked our path as we were hiking throu...
I will take a short break from posts of a politcal nature for just a moment. I was writing a friend today and mentioned that I recently fell in love with a movie, which I thought was about penguins, ...
After much thought, and some insight from readers I decided to put this list together. I do not attempt to do all of this perfectly, certainly there are many areas where it is hard to be as discernin...
What is often missing in modern culture is this depth of connection. When you see a culture dividing into simplistic polarities — which is all of our politics nowadays and most of our religion ...
The Austrian Ministry of Science has nominated “How to be an explorer of the world” (“Wie man sich die Welt erlebt” in german) to be voted as science book of the year? Until n...
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