Back during my first attempt at free-flight outside the safety net of my (dear) Mother’s religion, one of the first thought-provoking books I picked up was a little pink paperback with a very curious title. The year was 1976. Due to a last-minute decision to switch from an obscure private college in Lincoln Nebraska to a slightly less […]
Two day’s back, it happened. Some years it’s mearly a casual breakup of lazy floating ice islands; other years it is a seismic event creating a fantastic multimedia show (and a wild ride, if you dare). This year, Long Pond’s annual ice peel was somewhere in the middle.
01.01Happy New Year 2008!
Though definately in the minority, I’m not a big fan of new year’s resolutions, especially since adopting GTD as the nerve center of my life organization. For those who feel compelled to make the annual conscription, here is a good set of guidelines for guilt-free resolutions.
New Year’s is a time of reflection and review….and scheming […]
12.15Morumi
Krista Tippett is the host and creator of a groundbreaking public radio program and postcast, Speaking of Faith. SOF is unusual its sensitive and deeply insightful weekly in-depth treatment of controversial religious topics. This week her topic, The Ecstatic Faith of Rumi, is one of the best I’ve heard.
About three months ago, Rumi turned […]
For some time I have been thinking of building and maintaining a list of artistic and creative adventures around the world. A sort of personal “places and things to see and do before you die” (except that I’m Not)…
I‘m using a new on-line mind map tool which […]
11.17“Break Out”
Masks at MoCA 2008, completed entry. I’m pleased with how it turned out. Definately and improvement over last year’s entry: Masks at MoCA 2007
Each year an artists statement must accompany the mask. Here is mine for 2008:
“Break Out”
“The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of […]
I used to generate massive (gigapixel) stitched panoramas using an arcane piece of software called PTAssembler combined with an even more obtuse tool — the workhorse underneath — Panorama Tools. This pair of tools is an amazingly flexible powerhouse; but not for the faint of heart. At HP I had grand visions of creating a […]
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or […]
13th century Sufi poet-philosopher and mystic Movlana Jalal-Ad Din Balkhi Rumi is 800 on Sunday. The Western world has relatively recently discovered “Rumi.” Here, his magnificent poetry is largely seen as secular in its praise of wine, music and romance — even eroticism. But in his native Iran, he was — and is — […]