Thursday, January 29, 2009
Typography, like cartography, lures me with the promise of esoteric depths. What secrets do the seers of these realms know? A recent foray into the world of typography captivated me to the point of near-breathlessness. There are worlds of joy within even a font style. It doesn’t surprise me that Robert Bringhurst, author of The […]
Thursday, December 25, 2008
My goal with this Christmas Day article is simply to make you laugh. I thought I’d tell a few jokes (What’s brown and sticky? … A stick.) and provide a few links to humorous articles. Maybe later. I’m too busy wiping tears of laughter from my eyes after researching Bookseller Magazine‘s Diagram Prize for Oddest […]
Preparing for an earthquake is too freaky. I only accomplished it by taking what I called nanosteps, steps so infinitesimal I was done before the heebie-jeebies set in. Author and artist SARK, in her book Make Your Creative Dreams Real, calls such small steps microMOVEments. Robert Maurer has gone even further and written a book […]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
High sensitivity can feel like being plugged into an electric current of awareness, like having non-optional X-ray goggles on. During the staff meeting, it’s obvious that she’s pissed off about something, he’s stealth-bullying the new receptionist, and those three know a secret. At the restaurant, that boy is scared of his mother, the couple in […]
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The highly sensitive people I know who are thriving are all self-employed. Is this a coincidence? Maybe. But maybe not. Self-employment has a lot to offer HSPs, and many of our innate tendencies make us suited for taking up the reins of our own business. Self-employment doesn’t need to be a gigantic, red-tape-festooned, complicated step. […]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” ~ Satchel Paige Play anyway. Play even if no one approves. Create without purpose. Experiment. Make mistakes. Make nonsense. Make more mistakes. Forget finesse. Lose track of time. Delve. Turn off the editor. Play hooky. Become one with something larger. Jettison pretence. […]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
“Dave Hickey’s prose transports are like an eye attached to a butterfly attached to a rocketship…” ~ Lawrence Weschler Dave Hickey‘s résumé is impressive. He’s written for Harper’s Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Artforum, plus many other publications. He’s been the Executive Editor of Art in America magazine. He’s owned and directed an art gallery. He’s […]
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
William Gibson is well-known for his science fiction writing, which I love, but my favourite book of his is a non-science fiction novel. Pattern Recognition‘s heroine, Cayce Pollard, is highly sensitive, and that plus Gibson’s mentally chewy writing has made me a happy re-reader of this novel. Cayce Pollard is highly sensitive in a very […]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
British writer Tim Moore has charmed me thoroughly. He writes irreverent, utterly hilarious travel memoirs with the twist that he’s frequently and unabashedly incompetent at what he sets out to do. My favourite Tim Moore adventure is told in French Revolutions, in which he hoists his unfit body onto a recently purchased bicycle and sets […]
When a friend recommended John Allen Boone’s Kinship with All Life to me fifteen years ago, I was intrigued enough to track it down. First published in 1954, this odd treasure was a revelation to read, not because Boone’s ideas about the ability of animals to communicate with us are new at the concept level, […]
