I’ve always loved the sound of the word serendipity. It sounds so delightful and playful.
I had a most wonderful experience last Friday. Amy, Tom, and I have been meeting as a small book club for several months, happily reading our way through Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch. We would routinely meet [...]
I was reading the newspaper this morning and I was struck by an article with the headline: Education reform could start with students written by Mitch Perlstein. I’ve thought for some time about how foolish we Americans are—how out of touch and insulated we are, how crazy our expectations, how wasteful we are of resources and [...]
Janet and I spent the Fourth in Seattle. It was all too nice. While there, I was struck by an article in the Seattle Times by staff columnist Danny Westneat: “Just like the Founding Fathers, we’re out of sorts“. He writes that the institutional part of the Constitutional bargain with the people has gone sour. Calls [...]