“Settle down.” I’m frequently told. The more I seek calm in my life the more dissatisfied and restless I become. I dream of being elsewhere. Everything is mildly interesting but nothing is passionately interesting. In the last five years especially, I’ve found it difficult to muster internal motivation for new projects. I’m clearly in a maintenance phase. House, garden, blogs, relationships, studying Japanese–my involvement with all of them is a
May 24, 2010
Yosemite: Upper Yosemite Falls Hike
Hike. May 24, 2010. Lesson learned. The view from the top of a falls is never as spectacular as the view from the bottom.
March 20, 2010
Tweeting SXSWi
Recently I’ve noticed in movies or TV shows that during a lecture every college student is rapidly typing away on a laptop. As a teacher, I think I would find it very disturbing. I’d wonder, are they taking notes or messaging friends? Are they mentally present at all? How does one even speak to a room of people whose eyes are focused elsewhere? Where’s the physical and emotional feedback when
March 20, 2010
SXSWi 2010
“The real voyage of discovery is not to seek new landscapes but to look upon the world with fresh eyes.” –Proust
January 14, 2010
Up in the Air
The unbearable lightness of being.
Bottom Line: Recommended. Urbane fun. Great acting. Great dialog. Only us INTJ types will bristle at the message.
September 24, 2009
Mono Lake
The black stuff on the shoreline is not algae or seaweed. It’s masses of alkali flies. When you walk near them clouds of them rise. Luckily they’re not biting flies and don’t show the least bit interest in humans.