Do you ever stop to wonder why the green ink spilling from your fountain pen in paisleys and undulating hills doesn't seep through the paper like water following hidden seams in the earth, seeping into the streams and rivers then emptying into the ocean? Some questions breed questions, not answers. Or at least that's been my experience. It likely explains my perennially perplexed ...
Wonder
Wo/ander
Today I am a velo flâneur. [pullquote]A bicycle flâneur yielding to the siren call of knotted byways. Wonderful. Wanderful.[/pullquote] Instead of hustling up a mountain on two wheels, one of my favorite exercise routines in Santa Fe, I decide to wo/ander. To wonder about the spiderweb of (mostly dirt and gravel) roads near my home, unfamiliar roads, many of which I've never walked or ridden or ...
Independence
Here's to a happy, healthy Independence Day, American friends! (Plus a much wider wish for independence—real, autonomy striving, responsibility ensured freedom—to creators and explorers and teachers and dreamers all around the world.) At the risk of sounding pedantic, I invite and encourage you to shoehorn a few minutes between the bunting and the barbeque, between the parade and the fireworks, a ...
Autodidact
Autodidact Allow for awe. Savor enigma. Strive to become more curious. Permit your wonder to metastasize. Pursue your questions' headwaters. Sing solutions. Dance with answers. Remember to swap tunes and partners no matter how fetching, how beguiling. Humility and gratitude will excuse your wanton ways and multifarious conquests. Court riddles and seduce new mysteries. Give yourself permission to ...
Wonder
"After all, the object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state that makes art inevitable." ~ Robert Henri ...
Change
The world I want to live in is a world powered by change. It is a world driven by design thinking, disruption, and... a world of greater simplicity and greater complexity than ever before... We must savor the little moments; allow them to change us. Love our experiments... capture the accidents... [and] eschew the known quantity... let’s not forget our capacity for wonder, gratitude, and ...