Category Archives: All Life Lenses
Another view of discovery – Columbus’ view reworked
Perspective is powerful, potent thing. It can illuminate & enlighten. It can also dampen & darken. Ownership, culture, discovery, holidays – they’re all imbued with perspective, with a particular worldview. What’s yours?
We are like herd animals, warily sniffing, tails in the air, ready to sound the alert for danger
“Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.” ~ Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977), U.S. anthropologist & writer. I love the visuals in this quote. Decidedly different = warily sniffing, tails in the … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, difference, herd animals, loren eiseley
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How do you experience your perspective, your life?
I spend a lot of time thinking about perspective. How do you see the world? How does it compare to how I see the same world? Our perspective is framed by our cultures, including our gender, age, socio-economic background, sexual … Continue reading
Laying it bare – monthly round up of January 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 January. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around … Continue reading
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Tagged adde adesokan, albert einstein, bizarro, dan piraro, walt witman
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You’re fine, how am I? (Dan Piraro of Bizarro comic fame)
(I can’t include the comic because it’s not licensed for free public use but you can see it here, it’s #8.) It throws a wrench into perspective. It twists our typical way of looking at things. It throws up a … Continue reading
“This is the city and I am one of the citizens …” (Walt Whitman)
“This is the city and I am one of the citizens, whatever interests the rest interests me.” This is a line from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. It caught my attention for the worldview it includes. If only we were … Continue reading
“In the grand scheme of things we’re all pretty much blind & deaf”
This image pretty much says it all. We can’t take it all in. Not even close. Our screen, our radar, is highly selective. Beyond what we can see, we see what we want to see. Likewise beyond what we can … Continue reading
Finding new in the old – All Night Long (All Night)
From my perspective there’s nothing so relaxing as hitting the dance floor to dance the stress away, which is what I found myself doing a while back in a club in Nairobi. Truth be told I wasn’t having a fabulous … Continue reading
Charlie’s Chocolate Factory – finding a neighbour 14,354 km away
The strangest coincidences happen when you’re far, far from home. Like when I was on safari recently in Kenya and met THE Charlie of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. Charlie is somewhat of a local legend & meeting him & his wife … Continue reading
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Tagged charlie's chocolate factory, difference, similarity
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious (Albert Einstein)
Curiousity didn’t kill the cat. Far from it. Curiousity flames the inquisitive fires of exploration. Curiousity made our ancestors climb out of trees to claim the savannahs of Africa while walking upright for the first time. Curiousity beats back ignorance, … Continue reading