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September 29 2010
Joanna Macy, Rilke and The World
I learned of Joanna Macy through one of my new favorite podcasts, On Being, which explores ethics, faith and ideas. She’s a philosopher of ecology, a Buddhist scholar, and a translator of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. She also worked for the CIA in Germany and lived in India, caring for Tibetan refugees. She has lived the full and varied kind of life that many can only hope to lead by age 81. - – - In her interview with Krista Tippett, Macy notes that we are at a tipping point, where we can either revolutionize the way society works in an effort to heal the world, or continue to plunder and destroy it....
September 22 2010
The Mutes Are All Right
Some years ago, my good friend Sean Novak told me something along the lines of: “If only you spoke as well as you wrote, you could rule the world.” I don’t know about the world domination bit, but the observation that a rift exists between my spoken and written selves is sharply true. In writing I’m somewhat formal and measured. When speaking, I often sound like a Valleygirl, overusing words like “totally!” and interrupting my speech with “like” far too much. I used to chalk this up to that formative mid-90s summer I spent watching Clueless on repeat, but I should have grown out of it by now. My ability to speak is deficient in...
September 15 2010
Idyll Interrupted
I caught the family cold last Friday, and spent the weekend convalescing in the company of James Bond, Jane Austen and The Simpsons (the latter at the influence of my boyfriend’s 15-year-old sister). The weather was sickly, too: grey, drizzly and cold, which made it less painful to be stuck inside resting. On Monday, the sky was blue and my condition improved. To start the week off right, I baked a carrot cake, which Erik and I ate with tea at a table near the garden. The sun and warmth were a welcome change, so I put off going inside for a bit, and instead walked to the fjord, book and notebook in hand. It...
February 19 2010
bodies
We live in a time of extremes. Obesity is on the rise, but so are eating disorders. Here are some things relating to bodies, the psychology behind our perception of them, and how we’re dealing with it all.
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Canadian cover model Coco Rocha speaks out against the damaging practices of the fashion [...]
February 17 2010
The Trouble With Humans
(photo by Flickr user Slightly North)
“According to America’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, work-related suicides increased 28% between 2007 and 2008. … the problem is deeper and more complicated than a callous management team that cares about nothing except profits. The problem is also in us.”
- Peter Bregman, “Diversify Yourself,” Harvard Business Review.
“However difficult, leaders [...]
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