Isn’t that amazing! This isn’t a war – this is a moment when collectively we’ve said let’s take care of our people – world wide. I find it very heartening. To be clear I know there are exceptions, but this is a phenomenon. In World War I and II, not to mention many other conflicts current and past, we’ve lost millions of human beings – tens of millions. And today we …
What kind of fence or boundary have we for those private thoughts, that space of our own? Where do our spaces begin, end and intersect? … Where are the boundaries? What fences or walls will we take down? Put up? Crawl over? Ignore?
How can we bring fresh eyes and ears to a project or to our loved ones, friends, clients, co-workers, and to our growing and changing selves? Basically what we need to do is to keep looking for new things, keep discovering – even in the routine – a new way of looking, seeing and being. I know this and still was fooled recently …
One day, in March of 2016, I got a wild hair idea. That is, I had the odd notion that when I went out for my next walk, I ought to walk backwards. My next thought was that it would look a little odd, and it could be a risky thing to do. Heck, it might even be dangerous, and it did turn out to be dangerous, but more on that later.
I accidentally and permanently erased about 17,000 emails, and it turned out to be a good thing!
