UPDATE: The Record Keeper‘s official Facebook page has posted a statement from the General Conference Communications Director Williams Costa: The GC is “stepping back” from the series’ planned February 2014 release date; no new release date has been announced. Read the GC’s statement (Friday, January 24). See also this extended feature on The Record Keeper: […]
No Arc, No Guarantees. Work Anyway. (Coates)
I came across these paragraphs today, from one of the last columns The Atlantic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote on New Years Eve 2013. I don’t believe the arc of the universe bends towards justice. I don’t even believe in an arc. I believe in chaos. I believe powerful people who think they can make Utopia out of […]
Designing Anew
I’m endlessly fascinated by how minority groups absorb majority standards as a measure of value, even when those standards press the minority to pervert its native expression and don’t elicit the best of what the minority group could bring to the common table. I was heading to a work dinner with my favorite person yesterday […]
Carol Connor on the Value of Art
Carol Connor on the Value of Art I feel strongly about keeping creativity alive & flourishing within people. Making art teaches tenacity, problem solving, embracing the unexpected, creative thinking & feeling, being in the flow, humility, flexibility, experimentation & more, all important life skills. — Carol Connor
