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Tag: Person Communication and Meetings

I listen to Deepak Chopra talk about the science of the soul with hope & fervor

T. and I found our­selves at Deepak Chopra’s Home­Base, a long, low space on the mez­za­nine of ABC Car­pet & Home, this Wednes­day lis­ten­ing to the guru of human poten­tial, total­ity and cen­tered­ness have a con­ver­sa­tion with Rudolph Tanzi, a Har­vard neuro-scienctist and geneti­cist, about the mys­tery of mem­ory. This was my first expo­sure to […]

The Crystal Ornament: A Twitter Story

The orna­ment lit up in his hand. It felt like magic. Kevin took it home & wrapped it in paper. When I get my big house, he thought. March 1, 2011 1:29 pm via Tweet­DeckReplyRetweetFavorite @drmstream drm­stream This is one of a series of sto­ries that I have been telling on Twit­ter.  Each para­graph is […]

The wilderness’ concordant generality:” Faulkner, language and knowledge

A Japan­ese poet once wrote that there is no util­ity in metaphor, that in the mod­ern world the only valu­able expres­sion is of words that are spe­cific to one thing. This is lan­guage as the table of exis­ten­tial ele­ments: when used pre­cisely, words make an objec­tive real­ity that we can use to breach the gaps between […]