[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSuqwopH9U&feature=youtu.be] Silence is deep as Eternity: speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle, on Sir Walter Scott I found something compelling about the sound of the Thames River sloshing into this tiny stairwell....
I was asked by a friend to explain my conversation salons. I outlined to him their unstructured nature, freedom from agenda, the absence of a problem to which our focus was restricted, and our shared intention to communicate deeply, openly and with humanity. He then...
Checking the smart phones in at the door. [Squishtalks is on vacation. This is one of a series of prepared images, from the archives, just to prompt your own discussions and reflection while I’m on holiday…...
“Youth does not need friends – it only needs crowds.” Zelda Fitzgerald In the seventeenth century, we knew we existed, Descartes said, because “I think, therefore I am” (cogito ergo sum in Latin). Being able to doubt our existence demonstrated that we had...
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” Henry David Thoreau There is a burgeoning trend, which I am tempted to dub the Get a Life Movement, to reclaim our lives and our sense of place in the physical world around us. The Get a Life movement...
“In choosing to digitally enhance, hyperconnect, and constantly share our lives, we risk not living them. We have collectively colluded to take this journey… ” Baratunde Thurston Baratunde Thurston was once billed as the world’s most connected man. In that...
