I didn’t do a whole lot of research of what to do in Santiago before I got on a plane to go there because I didn’t have a whole lot of time to spend—just 2-and-a-half days and 2 nights. I showed up with a multitude of devices loaded with apps that I rely heavily upon when I travel (e.g. TripAdvisor); […]
I just don’t want to lose the enchanted as it finds its way to me so I am going to start archiving beautiful writing on this site… Die Slowly He who becomes the slave of habit, who follows the same routes every day, who never changes pace, who does not risk and change the […]
A Clear Midnight by Walt Whitman THIS is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, death and the stars.
There is only one Bolshoi. Last spring, to finish that sentence, I would have said “there is only one Bolshoi Ballet.” But, when I got to the famed theater in Moscow I was schooled. It is actually called, “the Bolshoi Theater.” This matters to me simply because I had intended to go to the imperial palace to […]
The Pears Soap empire of England has enticed consumers with original marketing campaigns from the very beginning. Pears is also the world’s oldest soap company. In the beginning of the 17th century, Pears’ founder Andrew Pears developed the first soap of its kind—a transparent formula with wild foaming viscosity that at that time was not […]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is regarded as one of the very best speakers of all time – largely due to the positive, inspiring and influential nature of his speeches. To be a great speaker – in public or among few – you must master inflection, posture, eye contact and tone just as much as vocabulary, message and rules […]
(Last updated: November 27, 2013) Before we turn our back on postal services – let’s pay homage to some beautiful art that snail mail has into brought into our homes over the years. (This one’s for you, pop!)
The ‘Metelkova City Autonomous Cultural Center‘, in Ljubljana, Slovenia—more commonly known and much easier said ‘Metelkova’— is a composition of seven buildings and outdoor space run by independent leaders of civic engagement, political action groups, and artists of music, painting, sculpture, literature, theater, printmaking and other arts. It is also well known for its weekend exhibitions (i.e. dancing and flirting […]
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