April 2008
34 posts
Happy Feet.
A hump day cheers to Sarah Pallack. Working with Think PRin New York City, a company boasting clients such as W Hotels, Aveda, Rock and Republic, and DKNY, Sarah has been put in charge of a very special project. TOMS Shoes is a non profit founded by Blake Mycoskie. For every pair of the Argentine design inspired kicks sold, a pair is donated to a needy child. Between traversing jungles and...
The Guru of Google.
Everybody won when my mother got a computer. She sent me this article today, and it’s a doosey. Larry Brilliant, the man anointed by Google to give away hundreds of millions of dollars of the company’s money in the next few years. Philanthropy and charity are such interesting concepts. “It is always better to give than to receive,” is a nice, morally fibrous lesson that’s been...
“Going to church no more makes you a Christian than sleeping in your garage makes...”
– Garrison Keiler
It's Sunday.
I’m not particularly religious, but I do agree with having a day of rest. Love one another. The most common thread tying together all religions. If we all do our best to do that, we’ll be alright. c
Things like Spring.
Everyone’s always told you that life is about the little things. Everyone has always been right. In this MySpaced, blog ridden, Facebook addled society, our narcissism has impregnated us with the notion of how big of a deal we all are. I’m just as guilty. Not that the aforementioned vehicles of vanity are the sole cause of our condition. Hardly. Humans have always known what a big deal they are....
Life's Little Meter Stick.
I asked myself this morning, I guess I ask myself almost every morning, “Are we what we make? Are we measured by what we do?” I said so in this right hand column, but if we’re on the topic of measuring, a concept not worth spending a great deal of time on, as life is phenomenally too subjective and convoluted to hold a ruler to, the simple answer is yes. That might be all we...
“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is only one way to move forward, and that is to take that first step. As a community of artists, thinkers, and all around movers, I’m confident in the direction we are traveling in, and the tenacity with which we do it. Have no fear, World. All of this in mind, I am so proud of the people I’ve surrounded myself with, and the people I love that I’m not so surrounded by.
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners...”
– Proust
Marie Morrow, U.S. Cultural Envoy to Kosovo.
“Let them eat cake!”
I just found this scribbled on an old notepad. Sharing:
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
– Pablo Picasso
Speaking of Earth Day...
Earth Day. The story.
In September 1969, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the national agenda.” “It was a gamble,” he recalls, “but it...
“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”
– Albert Einstein
This is a blog dedicated to what we make and what we are, and the mesh that lines the in-between. Day one. Make peace. We are love.
