My work recently had a nice little event at a really interesting space in town. Sandbox is a coworking organization. The premise is that folks who want to do their business in a great space surrounded by other creative business folk. Its social and bright and collective.
The one I went to was in the Short North, but the folks in Gahanna are opening one this week. The organizers were all really nice and so sweet to host an event for our nonprofit. If you're in Columbus, its worth checking out.
Jun 7, 2009
Jun 6, 2009
Whoever you are
"Wild Geese" - Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
--over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting
--over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Tailfeathers!
You must go look at this creation by Lulu Carter. The tailfeathers! Cutest thing I've seen in a while and SO inspirational.
Jun 5, 2009
The plan
Miss Kristen is dropping by for lemon drops, porch sitting and guitar playing (her guitar playing cause I have no musical talents whatsoever). This poster cracks me up. Go read the reasoning behind it. I love all those things too!
Every now and then
I forget to check A Softer World for a while and get to go back and read lots. This I love.
That one too.
Jun 4, 2009
Something wrong with me?
I liked His Girl Friday, but didn't love it. I mean there's Cary Grant and witty banter and all but I'm not gushing like I expected. Its all right. 5-ish.
Jun 3, 2009
The same moment
The Moment - Margaret Atwood
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,
is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.
No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.
Jun 2, 2009
Jun 1, 2009
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