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Realise 2016
My guiding theme for 2016 will be Realise. Realise is a good one because it can mean so many beautiful and useful things: imagine, understand, make real, profit. Here are my guiding words and themes for previous years: 2009, no shopping: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/010634.html 2010, connect: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/010736.html 2011, relate: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/2010/12/reverb-1.html 2012, engage: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/2011/12/engage.html 2013, move: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/2012/12/move-2013.html 2014, develop: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/2013/12/develop-2014.html 2015, explore: https://mt.mediatinker.com/blog/2014/12/explore-2015.html After seven…
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Plank Pose
I started running yoga classes twice a week at Satoyama Design Factory. Today nobody showed up, so I decided to combine my yoga practice with some much needed floor maintenance. It’s amazing how many yoga poses you can do while cleaning the floor. I extended my usual 45 minutes to nearly 3 hours as I…
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Corner Cow
This is my friend and neighbor, Corner Cow. She lives at the dairy next door and watches over the intersection from her hilltop stall. From the road below, I greet her, talk to her about the weather, and sing her songs. She knows my voice and turns to watch me pass. She sniffs the air…
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Friday in Transit
20 min Walk 45 min Yoga 20 min Walk 30 min Bus 90 min Meander in Shops 30 min Walk 25 min Bus 15 min Walk 2 min Bike …Beer There you go, that’s my day. I had to get out of the house today. My bike’s been busted for over a week. I pedalled…
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Honking
Background: I’m teaching my first workshops at Satoyama Design Factory today. It’s in my new rural neighborhood and I have no idea who, if anyone, will turn up. Could be little kids, could be elderly neighbors, all of the above or no one at all. I’m OK with letting things flow and I can take…
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Do It All Now
At the moment, I am full of ideas for my life. Business ventures. Partnerships. Renewal of old projects. Some of them are already in motion, others are just getting underway. Some are short term, others are long term. Many of them depend on one thing or another that is out of my control. It’s a…
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Learnings: 10 Weeks in India
“Learnings” is something Rob & Tod & I do every year after camp. We make notes about what worked and what didn’t. So here are some learnings that I can refer to for next time I go on a long journey. t-shirts are universally acceptable but they take forever to dry four pairs of underwear…
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Tink at hillhacks
Hillhacks is challenging to write about. It’s got a lot going on. The only common theme of everyone’s experience is transformed perspectives. People come to Dharamsala, attend hillhacks, and go away changed. They quit their jobs. They leap into projects with new collaborators. They fall in love. They change careers. They take the first step…
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Unexpected body work
Yesterday in Yoyogi Park I was hula hooping while waiting for a friend when an older man holding some attractive red tasselled ropes walked over to watch. He looked interested, so I stopped and offered him a hoop, “Wanna try?” He shook his head and pointed at his back. “Oh, but it can be…
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49 becomes 50
Today’s my birthday; I’m 49. Forty nine’s a square, one of my favorite squares because 7×7 was the first part of the multiplication table that I memorised and always felt confident about. I loved that two pointy-angled numbers combined into two digits with the same shape – one pointed and one rounded. I don’t think…
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