From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Synergistic Feedforward

April 22, 2009

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Since it was pointed out to me by @caseorganic at sxsw, I’ve been delving into The Information Society as Post Industrial Society by Masuda.  It a fascinating look from back in 1980 of where we are emerging today.  The gold within the read for me has been his notion [...]

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Domestic Rituals

April 21, 2009

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It’s approaching that time of year when we let the fire burning in our outdoor wood furnace go out.  The ground has thawed and new plants are emerging each day around the property.  The temperatures at night are hovering around freezing.
The furnace fire began burning in October.  Every morning and every [...]

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Refurbishing the Sand Box

April 20, 2009

One of our family values is the Imaginal.  In order to cultivate the imagination in ourselves and in our children, it is crucial to create specific locations where reverie might find free play. There’s the play room, the painting studio, the study…Yesterday was spent refurbishing the sand box out back for our youngest.
It’s amazing how [...]

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Quietude

April 18, 2009

One of the greatest gifts living in this rural location is quietude.  It’s the gift I needed to learn to appreciate, one that can easily be left on the shelf.
We crowed out the silence with all types of fillers, the radio in the car, the tv, the i pod.  Anything to create a bubble of [...]

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Playing

April 16, 2009

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I remember as a kid watching professional athletes on television.  Just to be out on the field or court means you’re exceptional.  But out of every few thousand pros, a legend walks amongst them, an immortal: a mythic figure in the flesh.
I recall sports announcers making one point over and over, regardless of [...]

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The Archetypal Garage

April 15, 2009

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So I’m finally taking the plunge thanks to @Robert_Banghart who pointed out to me the incredible search functionality of FriendFeed.  Wierd how we can be looking at something and never really see it.
For months I’ve been feeding content into the FriendFeed without being a participant.  Then, when I went and [...]

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The Gift of the Unfollow

April 15, 2009

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Each week hundreds of folks that at one point made a decision to follow me on twitter make another decision to unfollow me.  In many ways, the unfolllow is the greater gift and more useful.  With each person that moves on to different if not greener pastures, the value of the social linkages [...]

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Complexes

April 13, 2009

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Everyone knows nowadays that people “have complexes.”  What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.”  Carl Jung, “A Review of the Complex Theory”, par.200
We know when someone pushes our buttons.  They have a certain power to “play” us so that regardless of [...]

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Playful Resonance

April 12, 2009

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“Time is a child-playing like a child-playing  board game-the kingdom of a child.  This is Telesphoros, who roams through the dark regions of the cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths.  He points the way to the gates of the sun and to the land of dreams.” Carl Jung, Memories, [...]

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The Colored Eggs

April 12, 2009

Easter eggs point back to a mythological fertility motif that at it’s root signifies nature’s abundance.  May the entire resurrection season deliver an abundance of meaning to you and yours…
(if you are wondering, the patterns on the eggs were made by wrapping a wide rubber band around the eggs during the dying process)

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