From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Junk

March 15, 2009

Image by Andrew Coulter Enright via Flickr

In many ways the news cycle has slowed down.
This past week Bernie Maydoff was sent to prison for what will likely be the rest of his life for the largest Ponzi scheme in history.  As my good friend Doug has noted “leveraging down is hell…”  What’s so interesting is [...]

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Travel Bags

March 14, 2009

Carry-ons both, the clothes in a LL Bean travel pack, the computer gear in a Overland shoulder bag.  What’s most difficult for me to pack on each journey are the additional resources, those items that might stimulate creative opening without breaking my back in the process of hauling them.
This time I have packed four items: [...]

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Passages

March 14, 2009

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Travel challenges the flexibility of the psyche.  There’s gear to pack, loose ends to tie up, the leaving of the familiar, multiple lines at terminals, the checking and rechecking of documents.   At each transition there’s always a sense the way could become blocked, that the doors will not open.
Beyond the nuisance of [...]

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View from a cafe corner

March 12, 2009

What I enjoy about this clip is the disconnect between the sounds of the cafe and the many passingby on the street.  While waiting to head to the book launch the other day I had time for a coffee and some twittering seated at the southeast corner of Washington Square Park.   I’ve been reflecting [...]

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Circulatio

March 12, 2009

One of the most useful concepts I’ve  discovered in my studies of Jungian psychology is circulatio.  An alchemical concept, the equivalent in our physiology is the circulation of the blood.  It has to do with the awareness that develops over time of the different aspects of the psyche.  As Edward Edinger remarks: 
“Psychologially, circulatio is the [...]

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World Wide Rave launched in NYC, SXSW next

March 11, 2009

David Meerman Scott launched his new book World Wide Rave this afternoon at NYU’s Kimmel Center to a full room of marketing types from the corporate world, academia and the non-profit sector.   Mr. Scott’s humor and interesting examples carried his audience right to the final participatory photograph.  Not sure how many in the room caught [...]

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Everybody please take a seat…

March 11, 2009

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…I Have an announcement
The gift of persistence is emerging in this corner.  Giving oneself to these tasks: maintaining a blog, being active on social media outposts, reading and commenting on a variety of other blogs…all that can add up to a pretty big time commitment.  And the question that emerges for many is [...]

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Holymoly…

March 10, 2009

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I’ve been finding myself running up against a bit of push back when sharing Jung’s ideas as of late, so I thought I’d cut to the chase a bit and talk of the Self, and Wiki is as good a place to start as any…
In Jungian theory, the Self is one of the [...]

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the thaw underway…

March 9, 2009

Gerald and I went snowshoeing two days ago up Balsam Lake Mountain, the most south-westerly peak over 3500 feet in the Catskills.  He captured our trip here.  On our way down the mountain our conversation turned to the soul of nature as we stood beneath a huge monolith of a boulder.  We began [...]

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More Fences, More Fear

March 8, 2009

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Fences, especially those erected to prevent the intruder or to lock up the undesirables, are always a strategy humans rely on to deal with crisis. They are effective up to a point. Then history serves up a few counter moves and the fences cease to function as intended.
It’s [...]

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