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A neo-renaissance, eco-epicurean savors, curates and shares slices from the surf's edge on the inspiration, imagination, the art of living, the living of art - and anything that screams Life.
At first I didn't connect a friend's email subject line: row row row your boat gently down the stream with the "truck art" I saw last night when I went for a walk. I mulled over that "last great unknown"...
At least where I live, the white and mauve blossoms are peeping through the buds. Feathery fern unfurls on the mesquite trees around the sidewalks sharing the Mojave desert. Delicate orange globules grace the gritty branches of globemallow. In Chinese...
"There are good ideas, and then there are good ideas that make it easier to have other good ideas." - Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation I believe that sentence summarizes the book Where...
"The Wonder Year project is an invitation to imagine what lies beyond the apparent boundary of 2012, not as a rigidy imposed concept or prediction, but as an adventure." - The Wonder Year I adore invitations and adventure, so this...
The ruins of the once center of the cosmopolitan world Byzantium Empire are underground in Istanbul. Paradoxically, antique and precious things aren't the only thing underground. Often new and too edgy things reside underground. Although, I'm tiring of hiding underground....
?Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo,? said author Don Marquis, speaking from experience. Something you?re considering, Leo, may seem to fit that description, too. It?s a...
?What makes a really capable child give up in the face of failure, where other children may be motivated by the failure?? - "The Effort Effect According to a Stanford psychologist, you?ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace...
The only place I found in Las Vegas that feels like my kind of 'home' is a cafe (and Red Rock Canyon). The owner is Brazilian, and opened the Sambalatte "lounge" as he named it, one year ago. No doubt...
Before I die I want to.... that was the question sitting there blank on the blackboard. The answer not to be engraved in stone, a fixed and unmoving testament. Just chalk--so it's okay to morph it, play it by ear...
"The millet fileds were generous and the harvest was good. The hard work of collecting and transporting grain from the farm to the roof of the houses where it waited to be put into the granaries was over. Now, in...
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