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Behind every human interaction, whether at the coffeeshop or the office or the dinner table, is this question: do you see me?
Do you see me as I am, with my unique gifts and skills and needs and wounds? Are you really looking?really listening? Or are you sleep walking, going through the motions, only half aware [...]

The backlash has begun. I’ve been reading comments about this weekend’s telethon for Haiti saying we should take care of our poor and hungry before giving $57 million to others.
What’s behind that sort of thinking? I do think there’s something in us that makes us want to take care of our own people, our own [...]

There will be endless theories floated as to why Martha Coakley lost the special election in Massachusetts, from opposition to healthcare reform to the glass ceiling that favors male candidates in supposedly liberal Massachusetts.
But one thing is clear. Just showing up isn’t enough any more. By one count, Martha Coakley made 19 campaign stops between [...]

Fear and excitement both activate our bodies in similar ways. They make our hearts beat faster, they kick off a flow of brain chemicals, and they produce those familiar butterflies in the stomach.
So what’s the difference? My friend Ross Harwood explained it this way: fear causes us to lean back, while excitement causes us to [...]

My friend Johnny Memphis, former DJ for WRSI (yeah, he was the one immortalized in the Dar Williams song) once noted about Bob Dylan’s song “Dignity,” that it was characteristic of Dylan’s unique genius to write a song on that concept. “Who else would think to write a song about dignity?” he asked with a [...]

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There are times when still photos, rather than video, seem to be the right choice for a particular project. Here are a couple of examples from a recent collaboration with talented photographer Maya Krinsky.

We can learn to open again. Open to the miracle of life on this fragile planet. Open to the suffering of others, and to the mystery of why we, of all those who have ever lived, are alive at this very moment when the future of our species is in doubt.

I like this talk: Seth Godin on why good ideas was not inherently valuable. It’s getting things done (which means getting over the obstacles to getting things done that come largely from our lizard brains) that matters.

I’m working with some writers, including one who has a book agent quite enthusiastic about his work. So I pay attention when Jonathan Fields says this about the way things used to be:

Those days are long gone, never to return. The publishing world is in mass upheaval right now. Nobody knows what the “right” format [...]

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Jim Olsen of Signature Sounds Recordings asked me to work with the EIlen Jewell Band to make a video as their new record was coming out. We shot their version of Shakin’ All Over at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in Brattleboro, VT.

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