Now that things are settling in after the holidays, coming back to the routine of daily activities and work, we thought it might be interesting to reflect further on what it means to work with one’s hands. For example, what it means to work with one’s hands, rather than working on a screen. The screen, of course, is an incredibly powerful tool. We have in the last number of years experienced an information revolution, and the computer has, in a crucially important way, opened the doors to new productivities and creativities. The distance we are today from the idea of the routine production of items by hand was in significant part a result of the Industrial Revolution. One impact of...
In today's blog, Douglas writes on the importance of the stillness that many of us have experienced over the past two weeks... Over the last two weeks or so, the ideas of calm, quiet, even silence, have received somewhat greater attention than they usually do. We are now on the other side of what seemed an extended, silent, night. We need calm. We need stillness. These would seem to be important aspects of well-being. And there would also seem to be degrees of stillness that we can experience and aspire to. This all seems intuitively simple and true and is especially so given the anxiety that often prevails in the world in which we live. Yet, the will to embrace...
Home is where the heart is. And inside, in that living, or family, or great room where family and friends gather, is where some of the most important and pleasurable moments of our lives happen...
If you are like me, and I don’t believe I am alone in this, each year at this time we undertake a trip, a journey, you might even call it a pilgrimage. It is at times an actual physical journey by car or train or plane...
There are perhaps few greater pleasures in life than walking up the path to the door of a friend or loved one. You feel the anticipation in your step, the anxiousness to be together again...
