Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Travel guru, guide and inspiration Rick Steves gave a great interview recently to the New York Times. He’s promoting his new book (out in February), On the Hippie Trail. Steves revisits — using journals he kept at the time — a 1970’s trip he took that inspired his life-long love affair with travel and with…
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So many ways to use time, so many alluring possibilities, so many things to try, so many changes to attempt. There’s a productivity guru — David Allen — who has written a book and created a website titled “Getting Things Done.” He offers strategies for getting more accomplished “with ease and elegance.” In my experience,…
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Looking for some William Butler Yeats poetry today brought me around to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, with a reminder of how powerful writers from the past seed the future. Mitchell’s rich lyrical legacy is her own, of course. But for one song, she recast Yeats’ poem Second Coming and put it to haunting music. I didn’t…
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