Delight 2014 – Reflections Part Two – Community

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....

Conversation and Community

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...

Conversing with the Past, Shaping the Future

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...