Archive for October 2011 | Monthly archive page
I realized that some of the highlights of my recent travels are starting to slip from memory, so I want to post a few of them here. So I won’t forget…. –arriving in NYC late-ish on a Saturday evening and surfacing for the first time (luggage in hand) from the subway stop at the corner [...]
Last weekend I had the happy opportunity to see Paul Simon in concert. There are many moments from that evening that will stay with me for a long time, but this song just hasn’t left my brain since then, so I thought I’d share it here. Having had a few of those moments when life [...]
This is cool, but doesn't even hold a candle to the espresso maker that I've got embedded in my prosthetic leg: http://t.co/YC1ji8Nq :) # freaky-just came across a partial episode of podcast that I made w/my ex many eons ago: http://t.co/Sq19keIv #thoughtthatwaslonggone # This #outrigger surfing session looks like so much fun–it made me awfully [...]
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look…. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of [...]
I’m a huge fan of Quaker songwriter Jon Watt’s and his latest (above) resonated with me even though I haven’t been too active in the “Occupy” movement. For me, I’m occupying my life rather than participating in a protest. Being fully present to my own experiences and to the economic choices that I’m making is [...]
Build a wee cabin in the Concord woods near Walden Pond and then write a book about your experience living in said cabin. Swoon! Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay [...]
Love that my daughter is reading monographs from my bookshelf for her AP US Hist class (such as Suburban Warriors: http://t.co/hv0Nc7gy ) # I've tried out nearly all these "kama sutra" positions at one time or another, tho I'm definitely partial to the train http://t.co/FdMlHpNF # Just got everything set so I'm headed to #THATCampSF [...]
A colleague recently turned me in the direction of Wendell Berry’s writings, so I’ve been reading Hannah Coulter on my iPad while traveling. It’s such a quiet, easy book–one that makes me feel connected to land and family. Perhaps, so far (about halfway through), it paints too pretty a picture of Hannah’s world, but I [...]
Tell me that this week, you’re cooking dinner (and washing the dishes). So when I get home from work in the evening I can focus on meeting my writing deadlines instead of fretting about in the kitchen. swoon! :)
Although I was just in New York City, I didn’t visit the “Occupy Wall Street” camp. While it was a popular topic of conversation with lots of the locals that I met, I didn’t have much to say about it, not having read too deeply on the goals of the protesters. I’m incredibly sympathetic to [...]
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New York style lounge singer.., @ Victoria's Bistro Cafe http://t.co/YveQePUX # My latest post about "Virtual Conferences" on the WHA's "Digital Frontiers" blog http://t.co/1UWhjqlz #wha2011 # I'm not going to make it to the #WHA2011 in Oakland, but if I was there, I'd be at this workshop: http://t.co/lkrqrjXj # D@laurenfklein i'min NYC for #mobilityshifts conf–any [...]
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