Confinment or restraint is limited in its ability to remove beauty from your life—as long as you have a store of images in your memory that you can recall at will. I have been building a store of my own images. I consider it to be a discipline or sorts–to store the images of beauty… Continue Reading
A few months ago while researching the documentary film, Indelible, I met someone who shared two short memories with me about his time in prison. He described an evening when he arrived on a bus to his new home in Walla Walla, Washington. He had noticed how the prison building looked as the road came… Continue Reading
A new proposal for National Geographic’s Expedition Granted ZERO provides an opening, a building, where on entering you are reminded of the beauty of being human. When you live in the midst of siege and destruction and you survive, one of the most difficult experiences is the feeling that you are no longer human; you… Continue Reading
“It was in this spiritual twilight, quick contact with the living lights in the sky, all living and alive. It is said that some stars are dead but maybe their light is a necessary blackness, not so much a retreat from sight but a more vivid being in the very depths of conscious being. This… Continue Reading
“There is more in any human being to celebrate than to denigrate.”
—Albert Camus, from his novel The Plague
This is the most stunning thing to see or imagine. “Scientists believe they have discovered why elephants have trunks – they used them as underwater snorkels… New research suggests that the animals evolved from mammals like the sea cow which is still found in some of the world’s oceans. “
I understand being attracted to strength, and those that seem capable of overcoming life's obstacles. I know the difficulty of withstanding the sights of illness, and age. But I find it interesting how I can have strong feelings of affection for someone in the weakest state of body, when pieces of their mind emerge reflecting… Continue Reading
Yesterday, I watched the sunset with someone 91 years old. Their memory has been fading this past year, making conversation increasingly difficult, as places, people, times, all merge together. But yesterday, as we watched the sun play out a dramatic show over the Olympic mountains, these failings meant much less, and once again, the person… Continue Reading
Beautiful video to watch. From Xeni Jardin. You may know Joi as a serial entrepreneur, a twittering globetrotter VC, a World of Warcraft junkie, or the CEO of Creative Commons, but he has a more traditional side, too. In this video, Ito welcomes us into his back yard in Japan, where he and his… Continue Reading