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Viewing entries posted in August 2011
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Aug
Aug
Fionnuala Barrett on Goethe and Fashioning Ourselves on What We Love
Goethe said, amongst many other clever things during his
lifetime that we are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Like all other statements which reinforce the idea that we
are captains of our own destiny, there is an onerous, if not
a frightening, edge...
30
Aug
Aug
David Baker on Leaving a Job You Love
This month I leave a job I love.
Since 2008 I have been the managing editor of Wired
magazine, a job I fell into almost by accident. I had
clocked up 20 years as a freelance journalist and decided to
take a sabbatical year...
25
Aug
Aug
John-Paul Flintoff on Being Consumed by Ruskin
Have you caught on to the Ruskin revival yet? All of a
sudden, it seems that the Victorian artist, critic and
revolutionary thinker has become interesting again.
Emma Thompson is making a film about Ruskin's five-year
marriage to Effie Gray, who ran off with...
24
Aug
Aug
Lizzie Shupack on Anger and Synchronicity
Week 3 of The Artist's Way, is all about emotions. The
chapter starts with Anger. It continues with further
discussion about Synchronicity. I found the passage about
Anger extremely synchronous, given that prior to reading it,
I had just had a blow-out argument, centered...
23
Aug
Aug
Nick Turpin on Photographing the Small Details of Life
What could be more ordinary than a stretch of public
pavement? When did you last stand and watch a stretch of
public pavement or a street corner?
If you take the time you will see that the street can be a
stage for the...
22
Aug
Aug
Rachel Heller and Amir Levine on Attachment Styles
How would you react to the following scenarios?
*
You call your date/partner and after the first ring, you're
transferred to voice mail.*
Do you barely notice or do you assume s/he is purposely
ignoring you?*
*
*You're sitting in an experiment room and suddenly you
notice smoke...
16
Aug
Aug
Lizzie Shupack on Becoming Comfortable in Your Own Skin
So here I am, at the end of Week Two of my 12 week
programme, as outlined in The Artist's Way. Despite
misgivings about its spiritual undertones, I am determined
to get to the end, would love something enlightening to
happen as a result,...
10
Aug
Aug
Mark Vernon on the Rules of the Group
The last couple of nights, we've sat in the house watching
the blogs, exchanging texts as our part of London operates a
virtual curfew. The looting and arson is rightly condemned.
I'm glad about that. But the moment is arriving to try to
understand...
09
Aug
Aug
John-Paul Flintoff on #RiotCleanUp
I'm typing this quickly, to get it out before I hear that
any more rioting has started, and before setting out to run
a class this evening at The School of Life for any intrepid
learners not scared to venture out too.
So: #RiotCleanUp....
09
Aug
Aug
Lizzie Shupack on Discovering Her Creative Self
Last week, a friend told me that she'd started working her
way through a book called 'The Artist's Way' by Julia
Cameron. She suggested I might want to take a look at it
as well, talking as we were, about the stressful subject...
04
Aug
Aug
Chris Johnstone on Resilience
Imagine a child tugging at your arm and asking what is
resilience and how do you get it? Our reply expresses our
'story of resilience', our inner understanding of what
resilience is and what it is based on. Because that story
powerfully shapes our...
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