The Walking Unplugged
This HuffPost Editors take on being offline for two weeks rings close to home for me. Having recently spent a couple weeks in the south of France, more offline than I’ve been in the past 5 years, it was refreshing to say the least.
But, the break from white noise isn’t just the end of that journey. It’s just the beginning. What happens when you take away the constant feedback from the world outside, the stream of thoughts, opinions, declarations, and narratives from others? Not surprisingly, you start to hear yourself. We’ve gotten so good at listening to the noise of modern day reality, that the feelings, thoughts, declarations, and voices that really matter have an even harder time getting through.
Is It True If You Don’t Say It?
In the past few months, I’ve been musing a lot on Love. I know we all think about love in passing all the time, or you may be one of those people who has fallen in love and thinks about it ALL the time (but then you’re really thinking of the other person, not the concept of Love, right?).
Most of us have had at least one person or crush that we’ve had deep feelings for and just haven’t spoken up. It got me to wondering, does the meaning and power of Love lie in the feeling, in the saying, or in the acts of love? Which one is more important?
Jiao Qing and Er Xi at the Chengdu Giant Panda Base on August 20, 2011.
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Woa, Dude!
For the Disney deprived, my title refers to Finding Nemo ;)
This phenomenal group of pictures of sea turtles diving in Hawaii is truly breathtaking. Don’t miss it, click on the link!
Salem Revisted
What’s so astonishing about this story of a true Witch (in religion) who got fired from the TSA is that when her co-worker accused her of putting a “curse” on her car, the organization didn’t laugh the accusation out of the room. The fact that it had to go into mediation is appalling….I mean, are we giving people who go around pointing to women like they’re the Wicked Witch from Oz a platform? All I can say is shame on TSA. More to the point, THESE are the people we’ve put in charge of protecting us? Ignorant bullies like this woman Bagnoli?
Delving into the Creative
This fine investigation into creative personality types provides a lot of rich information on the contradictions of performers and creative types- whether they are actors, stand up comedians, painters, singers…whatever.
Ultimately, we really don’t know the human formula for creativity, do we? But, there’s no doubt that the most highly creative people throughout history have been tormented by their own internal contradictions. Most fascinating is the dichotomy between “introvert” and “extrovert” and just how deeply some people feel things. To the rest of it, it may not make sense when they withdraw and we draw it up to depression, but if everything you felt in the world was 10times stronger, wouldn’t you want to retreat to?!
Ponce on the Water
Funny little piece on how the word “ponce”, used in slang in Britain, hasn’t quite made the same language and social impact here in America. Unfortunately for the Pentagon or DoD- or whoever names battle ships- that translated into the USSPonce. And, as the author of this Economist article pointed out, it surely made executing battle strategy with British navy difficult, as they’d be giggling on the other side. Haha.
Sadly, on our side it was the legacy of Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer. I wonder if anyone ever told him what his name meant in Britain? Good job he died a good 60 years before the Spanish Armada attempted to invade Elizabeth’s England…..but then again, maybe the Spanish could have done better with the Brits giggling on the other side.
