March 2009

  through the looking glass if alice peers through the looking glass and sees the jabberwocky, the walrus and the carpenter, and tweedledum and tweedledee, all representations of an incomprehensible adult world, then who is on the other side of the glass looking at alice (other than elvis costello!)? and what are they seeing? one [...]

  numbers and chaos number theory, from its humble beginnings as “one, two, many” has always existed as an attempt to make sense of the world we live in, give us some firm mental ground to walk upon, and, when we are lucky, offer us some predictive value. ironically enough, the field of mathematics has become [...]

  the calm before the storm it’s 4:58 in the morning, and section 2/1 of brian eno’s music for airports has just woken me. this is heaven. gentle minimal piano and angelic female voices, barely audible and yet for me a siren call: my morning pages await. next to me, the woman is sound asleep. [...]

  downtown it’s 7:15 am and i’m sitting in the “lower level” of the starbucks outside arlington station, boston. funny thing that i live in boston technically, and spend almost no time here. maybe that’s because roslindale, my community, is off the subway, so it’s either pony up the big bucks and take the commuter [...]

  local props sitting in mocha java espresso bar and cafe, dedham square, drinking a cup of joe courtesy of sumatra, still untangling this local/non-local knot, still amazed after all these years at the synchronistic power of intentional attention, to wit: my week has been flooded with this here and there energy, with a bit [...]

  sitting and sipping i’m sitting in the starbucks on linden street in wellesley, sipping tea from india tapping away at my laptop assembled in china, most recently re-spiffy-fied in tennessee. where are you? and where did all of your amenities come from? and what brings you and them together right where you are sitting [...]

       this message has been brought to you by the network the idea of networks within networks, like chinese boxes or russian dolls, like solar systems within galaxies within Universe…these ideas have been filling my heart and mind since friday. the stretch of the network metaphor has blossomed like a mushroom, and threatens [...]

  let’s make a deal a funny thing happened as i journeyed into my week of want, one of those bifurcations that shows the true meaning of infinity: i foolishly thought that framing questions of “what to do?” around what i want to do, rather than what i should do, or need to do, would [...]

  taking on the mantle of the decider looking at healing from multiple angles in order to create a 360° spherical sense of healthy happy motivated self (and no, i don’t feel the need to be happy all the time…heading in that general direction is fine with me!) has kept me on my toes all [...]