This week features a series of posts endeavoring to draw themes from the Delight Conference 2014 in Portland, as well as Design Week Portland. I shall each day post some thoughts collected in categories of creativity, curiosity, meaning, community, and empathy....
The word “conversation” has, of late, been diluted and diminished through overuse in a variety of contexts and activities that have less and less relevance to authentic, meaningful engagements capable of prompting genuine transformation (more on that complaint in...
I have been ruminating for some years on the notion of homesickness, nostalgia and a sentimentality for the past. More to the point, I have been considering the implications of middle age and a burgeoning sense of mortality, all compounded by being an expat. It was...