Author Archives: Lee-Anne Ragan
Advice from a tree
If you’re a regular reader, you know this blog is all about perspective. How what we see depends on what we look for. How what we think & feel depends on our priorities, on what makes it through our lens … Continue reading
Posted in All Life Lenses, Go Life Lenses, Mountain Life Lenses, Stop Life Lenses
Tagged perspective, tree
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A fresh perspective on stress
How stressed are you? What’s the weight of your stress? Depends on your perspective, which, it turns out, is related to a glass of water. This story, along with being a great illustration of how we carry stress, is also … Continue reading
Warning: reflections in this mirror may be distorted by socially constructed ideas of beauty
Our reflections, what we take in & process from our external world, are wildly distorted. Period. End stop. After all, in the Victorian era, plucking a woman’s upper hairline, in order to give one a large forehead, was considered beautiful. … Continue reading
Posted in Carrot Life Lenses, Mountain Life Lenses
Tagged beauty, distorted, perception, reality distortion
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Telling shiny objects apart from true illumination
The amount of information available to us (both on & offline) is growing more than 65% each year. Astonishing? Yes. Depressing? Maybe. Overwhelming. Could be. In an IDC survey sponsored by Xerox, respondents said they spent up to 26% of … Continue reading
Live like someone left the gate open
Gotta love this little puppy. She’s up for exploration, engine is revved, gas pedal is to the floor. Like a Go Life Lens™. Action packed, try it, let’s explore, jump in, take a chance – all are important, natural, vocabulary … Continue reading
Fishbowl toilets- now that’s creative
If these fishbowl toilets aren’t an attention grabber I don’t know what is. There are a variety of ways to see these tanks, from an environmental lens to a sociological one: Designed for Chinese families where space is at a … Continue reading
Laying it bare – monthly round up of May Life Lenses™ blog posts
We’re laying it bare. Stripping it down. Peeling back perspective. In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of May. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony rotolo, communication, design, diversity, finding home, friedrich nietzsche, labels, perspective, universal
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Learning to see – design lessons from Anthony Rotolo
Someone forwarded me this blog post by Anthony Rotolo. I love the emphasis on seeing. Anthony says ‘If we can observe a thing and understand why we react to it in the way that we do, then we can bring … Continue reading
100% human – Labels are for clothes
Labels are great. They can take what’s complicated & simplify it. They can create community (any other mothers of teens out there? any other Canadians living in Kenya?). They can be shortcuts that bring ease. They can define & delineate. … Continue reading
‘I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.’ Friedrich Nietzsche
Not many things come to mind that are as entrenched in opinion & perspective as religion. Entrenched as in I’m right, you’re wrong. Opinions such as My God rules, yours isn’t even on the radar. Dichotomous. Black & white. Yes … Continue reading