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The Power of Place

Sometimes, all it takes to take you back is a building. Stacks of steel and concrete or the way the fairway looks in that sunlight can transport you back a decade or more. Looking out a bedroom window or down a hallway that doesn’t seem so big anymore brings back memories and milestones you’d forgotten [...]

May 17, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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The Garden Lady

There’s a house on our usual walking route that has a lot of flowers out front. They’re mostly simple pansies or marigolds, but my daughter is captivated by them. When we ask if she wants to go by the garden, she always answers with an enthusiastic “Yes!” Last night, as we made our way to [...]

May 15, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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These Are the Rules

We were outside at our house after coming home from school. It had rained a bit the previous few days, so her small wading pool had some standing water in it. Knowing the plants would be thirsty as the humidity would be picking back up soon, I began to use one of her buckets to [...]

May 14, 2012 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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Use Your Art in Service of the Good

What are you doing with your art? I don’t mean your paintings or sculptures or your songs (unless of course you do those things). Your art is that thing (or things) you do well, perhaps better than anyone else. It’s the discipline, the talent, the gift you have that allows you to excel at something, [...]

May 10, 2012 2 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →
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What’s Your Lens?

Here’s an interesting and short video about perspective (h/t: Kottke.org): When you change your perspective, things can look very, very different. This is what empathy does for us. Just imagine how different our social, political, or economic conversations would be if we could take the position of the jump rope. Part of what shapes our [...]

May 7, 2012 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

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