Sunday, November 16, 2008

Being inspired


TED has opened up my world. What is TED? Jaw-droppingly good lectures by the world's most accomplished people in Technology Entertainment and Design. It's too expensive to go to the yearly conference but luckily we can now view it all on http://www.ted.com/.


I am awed by human capability for invention and innovation. This video is one of the most ingenious things I've ever seen. Hans Rosling shows how statistics can be translated into compelling images.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

This video shows how eventually, we'll need to say goodbye to our beloved keyboard and mouse. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html

I am intrigued. I want to be a part of what I find on TED. Not sure how yet, but it will come.
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1,971 miles from Nashville where my identical twin lives.
I was raised on a Mennonite Farm in Illinois. From the cornfields I made my way to inner city Philadelphia to live and work with kids who were the poorest of the poor but the brightest kids in the world. Later I took food and clothing to the homeless and prostitutes on the streets of NYC who opened my eyes to real poverty of spirit. Later I created fundraisers for AIDS patients, taught 2nd language learners about poetry, film and beauty and finally came to higher education to meet some of the most innovative, courageous and funky grads you could ever meet--at a place called Pitzer College. I live for moments of beauty and flashes of enlightenment. Sometimes life is just burnt out ends of smokey days (T.S. Eliot)or an ordinary cup of coffee. And sometimes it's that delicious misty morning overlooking Lake Atitlan in Guatemala in 1984 that I can never get out of my head. Ever. Either way, this story is going some where. Come along, if you like.

things i love

  • aged manchego
  • bammy
  • bangles
  • being a twin
  • ben and jerry's
  • blinis with caviar and creme fraiche
  • bob marley
  • bonfires
  • books about women who are crazy and yet, not so crazy
  • bumble and bumble creme de coco shampoo
  • burke williams
  • cathedrals
  • cello music
  • chandeliers
  • charm bracelets
  • cheetos
  • chevre cheese
  • chocolate babka
  • chocolate ganache
  • civilized breakfast at fauchon
  • cook books
  • corazones de chocolate
  • cornfields
  • croissants stuffed with chocolate
  • crumbling bricks
  • dale brothers' home brew
  • dark chocolate
  • docks
  • doing the happy dance
  • dreads
  • eating home grown tomatoes
  • eucalyptis
  • fishing
  • Fleur de Sel
  • foreign films
  • franny and zooey
  • freedom
  • freshly brewed coffee
  • fried dumplings
  • fried fish at Hellshire Beach Kingston
  • friends who don't clean up before I come over
  • gauguin
  • giving people food
  • going barefoot
  • h2o
  • hard wood floors
  • hiding in a corn field
  • imagining the future in detail
  • ipod filled with excellent music
  • italian sheets
  • italian sheets
  • jackson and isaiah's eyes
  • Jamaica
  • jerk chicken at fisherman's cove (port antonio)
  • joan
  • joan southerland
  • kombucha
  • l'occitane body products
  • langston hughes
  • laughing out loud
  • le pain quotidien
  • lip gloss
  • little cakes from miette
  • little islands around lake george
  • magnolia trees
  • margaret atwood
  • mashed potatoes at the Royalton
  • monkeys
  • moss
  • my handy labeler
  • my jamaica pendant
  • my mother in law also named Jean A Grant
  • my sleep number bed set to 65
  • naan
  • natural hot springs
  • necklaces made out of seeds or beans
  • new york public library
  • NYC
  • obamas
  • olive oil
  • peace signs
  • peanut butter
  • pearls
  • penpals
  • percolators
  • pine cones
  • pink poenies, lots and lots of pink peonies
  • pipe organs that are so loud, they are almost scary
  • poems
  • poison dart frogs
  • portuguese bream any way you cook it
  • proper cup of coffee in a cup and saucer on a mild mornng in Guatemala City
  • race cars
  • rainstorms
  • reading at night with a flashlight
  • Really nice shoes
  • root vegetables
  • roughing it
  • rushmore
  • salt fish fritters
  • scharffenberger chocolate
  • scotch bonnet pepper sauce
  • scrabble
  • shadows
  • sleepy fishing villages
  • soccer
  • sorting and organizing almost anything
  • soursop juice
  • spanish
  • street food
  • Sun on my face
  • sunlight sparkling on a lake
  • super thick goose down comforters
  • taking the subway
  • tea with the girls
  • the ocean
  • the phrase "with love and squalor"
  • The Slanted Door
  • the smell of a wood smoke
  • the smell of pine trees
  • the smell of spring
  • things that glow in the dark
  • thrift stores
  • tiendas
  • tiny birds that chirp outside my window in the morning
  • toads
  • toes
  • toni morrison
  • trixie
  • turkeys
  • upstairs apartments
  • Veuve Cliquot
  • virginia woolf's imagery
  • waterford crystal
  • whales
  • whole fried fish at Cherry's
  • william and wayne
  • words
  • yahtzee
  • zabar's (nyc)