A Little Dream of Me

Waking Dreams are visions of personal empowerment, joy, peace, passion, creation, seduction and delight. They are idealized images of self, personal aspirations, flights of fancy, hidden desires made manifest, explorations of the taboo.

These are the Dreamers.
These…

It’s ALL Practice

So, we’re almost a week into the new year; how are those new plans and schemes and hopes and dreams workin’ out for you?

Writers Write

Personally, I’m not doing too bad. The book on Opening Space is at about 14,000 words, and I’ve…

Backchannel

I was engaged in an interesting conversation with Karri, so I didn’t reach in my pocket when my phone buzzed. We continued talking until another remark across the room caught her attention, and she excused herself from the couch where we were sitting. Her husband Greg, who’d been doing something on his…

Love Loops

This morning, while journaling, I found myself writing about identifying patterns — both healthy and unhealthy — in my life, and my efforts…

Selfishly Selfless

Last night I went to see Les Misérables on the big screen. This is not going to be a review of the film — well, ok, maybe just a little:

If this had been the only portrayal of the musical I’d ever seen, it would have been magnificent (Russell Crowe excepted). As it is…

The Playground of Love

I just built the playground. It’s up to you whether you want to play on it or not. — Anonymous

The above quote is from a conversation I recently had with a friend here in San Francisco. We were talking about relationships of various kinds, and in particular the…

The Collaborative Heart

“The most important thing,” she said, “is to be able to constantly re-create the relationship.”

Yes, that’s right, yet again I was being lucky enough to hang out with a person much smarter than I am, and of course that meant I was subtly plundering her brain…

LifeNoise

Broken Mirrors

There are a lot of reasons to get ink. For those unfamiliar with the term, that’s current hipster slang for “tattoo”. It can be an act of rebellion, of drunkenness, of sexual identity, or a very personal investment in art.

Pragmatism vs. Protocol

Had an interesting experience at the end of my latest travel junket.

I facilitated two unconferences, back to back, in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Both were quite successful, and while I was more than ready to return home to family when they were done, the…

The Secrets of Life

Last weekend I found out, courtesy of Quentin Tarantino, that Alexander Dumas was Black.

And that pisses me off.

White Male History

Deliberate Dandelions

Let’s get back to talking about the gravy hose for a bit.

For those of you late to the party, that’s my kind-of-gross metaphor for the constant stream of stimuli provided by our always-on media culture. Any one of the media portals — Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter…