Monthly Archives: March 2008

22 Mar

Write Now. Write Often.

People have always told me I should be writing this down; that my life is more interesting from the outside. But where to begin? Chronology seems an oddly limited approach— too obvious, too flat for the story I’m about to tell you. What, then? Where can it begin?

18 Mar

Farewell, Clarke

[Clarke’s] characters, flawed and often unaware of the significance of their actions, confronted awe-inspiring and immeasurable ethical, spiritual, and moral challenges with ingenuity, maturity, and of course, incredible new technologies[…]

11 Mar

“Part of our role is to wake up the world.”

Two hundred leaders from seventy-one North American indigenous tribes convened on Monday to discuss rising concerns over global warming, environmental destruction, and the role of humanity as planetary shepherds.

02 Mar

A Life Lived Richly

The great and terrible secret of our culture–indeed, of the world–is that our financial and social rewards are directly proportional to the percentage of our lives that we “hand over”.

What am I going to do? I’m going to be alive; to dream and explore and experience as much as possible. Is that not good enough? Is that not a life lived richly?