Category: Clarity
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Resistance
I’m on vacation. I’m not on a big boat on a warm Caribbean ocean or careening headlong up and down the world’s largest wooden roller coaster or drinking wine in the Napa Valley. (What is wrong with me!??) I’m on a nearly mandatory “stay-cation” all by myself (not even my dog is home today) which while on…
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Long, Quiet Hiatus
I haven’t been writing. I also haven’t been teaching. I’m no longer in the same job. My garden is a shambles and I lost two of my seven bee hives. But I knew it was going to be summer of loss, I gave up on it before it even started. There was a garden, but…
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Natural Design
Before diving headlong into the second principle of Permaculture, I realized that I need to back up and keep exploring this notion of applying a biological design system to something that is non-biological – namely the World Wide Web. While it is indeed true that the web is not carbon-based, it is (IMHO) inherently human…
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UX Garden
Do you keep a vegetable garden? I do. I guess people would call me a gardener, but that would be a stretch! As each sign of Spring begins to appear in the dank-cold of winter, the garden in my dreams – the garden I know I can create – begins beckoning me to action. And…
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Recipe of me
I worry a great deal about revealing too much of who I really am in my online writings and probably a lot of that worry is warranted. Still, there is something to be said for celebrating the humanity we all share with the hope that all will come out clean in the wash. I…