Tag: quotes
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Simplicity is the way home
The following quote is by William Rivers Pitt who was writing after the death of Eric Carle, author of the children’s book The Hungry Caterpillar: Simplicity: whatever can be done within reach of your arm. Eric Carle took 224 words, 22 lines and his paintbrush, and made the world better. Such a small thing, such…
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Listen.
Listening opens us to the wonders of communication and creativity. Listening also teaches us that we live in an age of diminishment. Aesthetics—the appreciation and consideration of the perceptions of the senses—should therefore be central guides amid the convulsions of change and injustice that we live within. Yet we are increasingly disconnected from sensory, storied…
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This is your time.
“How come we are all worried that if we travel back in time our slightest actions may have a huge impact on our current time……yet we all feel that in this present our individual actions are impotent to change the future.” Photo credit: Delorean Rental
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Blind spot.
We are living through an extraordinarily difficult time now. The trouble is that most people, however intelligent they happen to be and however keen to keep up with the news, don’t have the slightest wish to see with open eyes what really is happening in our world. Even if they sense or intuit or suspect…
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