The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between…Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggests that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued-that that vast ...
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Step Around from Behind the Bars
"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of." ~ Paulo Coelho, The AlchemistWe arrived at the gilded Merrill Lynch office at Copley Place in Boston's Back Bay early that Monday morning. We knew from the previous Friday's market slide that we might be in for a wild ride from the moment the market opened. I got my desk ...
Belonging to Your Own Life
We gathered, seated in a circle, in an open classroom at The Burren College of Art. Wind and rain swept up against the walls and ceiling in great, heaving gestures, and the building seemed to be laboring to breathe while holding itself sturdy against the storm. My body shivered from both the coziness of the room, protected while the coastal Ireland ...
Courage and Creativity
"See with every turning day, how each season makes a child of you again, wants you to become a seeker after rainfall and birdsong, watch now, how it weathers you to a testing in the tried and true, admonishes you with each falling leaf, to be courageous, to be something that has come through, to be the last thing you want to see before you ...
