What I'm Planning on Writing About Soon:
- The Role of Art and Artists in Social Change: Was Eminem's failure to get Kerry elected the beginning of the end?
- Experience-Based Decision Making: It seems an obvious choice, until you understand why the alternatives hold sway.
- Making
Blog Comments and Forums and Wikis Work: Do we need groundrules to
enable real conversations, and would anyone follow the groundrules if
we did?
- The Long Tail: Why the tail will never wag the dog (while it's attached to the dog).
What I'm Thinking About:
Love.
We can't live without it. We can never get enough of it. But is it all
too often our personal excuse for inaction ("those I love wouldn't go
for this much change"; "I need to focus on my own life right now, so I
have to leave the big-picture issues to others")?
And as Natalie
Shell said in last week's thread, we need new ways of thinking, or
perhaps ancient and forgotten, wordless ways. To show someone, quietly,
how to do something, is to tell a story without words.
. . . . .
As
I promised a week ago, I'm taking a one-week sabbatical from language
-- reading, blogging, small talk, all the human linguistic activities
that take our attention away from what is really happening, here, now,
from what is really important. I'll be back in the new year with an
updated and expanded blog table of contents, and a modestly new
two-column look for the blog (the left sidebar will be eliminated, its
content will be moved over to the right sidebar, and the main column
and right sidebar will both be expanded in width).
I'll be catching up with comments, too, so as always, chime in with what's on your mind. Have a peaceful, joyful holiday, practice the capacities you seek to grow, and gather your strength for what lies ahead.
Wordless cartoon by the amazing Lee Lorenz in the New Yorker. |
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