Openings

What? You keep working? As many of my friends and colleagues retire, I contemplate what that means for me, if anything. My Dad retired one year earlier than the age I am as of this writing. What it comes down to is the relationship to the work—how do you relate to the...

THE SEARCH FOR LIGHT | GALLERY II

THE STATE OF WOWNESS In the exploration of design, organizing information, considering presentations and context, emotional relatedness, there are two elements that I look for in the conjunction of creative intelligence and communications to community. Content and...

The concept of the interval: the use of space in design I think about what is presence. And I consider, what is absence? What is here — easily seen; and what is next? What is the interval? What converts moment to momentum? One wind driven day, I was painting...

POWERPOLE

L E A D E R S H I P M A G N E T I S M In the modeling of a group of people, there is invariably a “power pole.” Working with people, I look for that energized place of energy. Who’s there? In the clustering of people, there is the layering of the...

ABRACADABRA | Alphabet Amulets

I got a note from some friends at the Oxford English Dictionary. It was about this word, “abracadabra” — and perhaps you’ve got the same one, since you might have friends there too. Earlier in my life, studying the history of the word, the real...