Author Archive
[Picture Added] Show us: What’s on your mind?
Greetings friends,
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
I agree! I think images are a rich and powerful tool for understanding and contributing to the world around us. As an artist myself, I’m intrigued by what could happen if each of us more freely exchanged the visual in community as a way to share, [...]
[UPDATED] The Year in 3
Thank you for your comments on 2009 - we’ve put them into a wordle to represent visually. The more often a word was mentioned, the larger it appears in the image below.
We’re curious…
If you were to choose 3 WORDS to describe 2009, what would they be?
This is open — You can come from whichever perspective [...]
Full, Empty & the First Lady
A few weeks ago, I followed an email link to this speech by Michelle Obama, delivered on June 16th in Washington DC. It does a wonderful job at describing the spirit, orientation, and aim of what we at SCOPE care about and work to practice locally.
(Follow link and scroll down to the bold text.)
http://www.abcdinstitute.org/faculty/obama/
This part [...]
Blue & his Bread
The other night, I stopped on a street near my house in Gillespie Park to take some photos. The light was in that beautiful shift between evening and nighttime and I just couldn’t resist. Walking back to my car, I noticed a man sitting out in his yard. I said to myself, “If he looks [...]
On being a catalyst
“Self respect arises only out of people who play an active role in solving their own crises and who are not helpless, passive, puppet-like recipients of private or public services. To give people help while denying them a significant part of the action, contributes nothing to the development of the individual. In the deepest sense [...]