A collaborative project by The BioEngineering Group, Michel Cullum Architects, The Design Principle and CUWR

 

Collaborative Consumption Groundswell Video

And for some more in depth information, you can check out MIT's Entrepreneurship Review for a great article by Tomasz Tonguz:

The New Market Places - Peer to Peer Collaborative Consumption

 

No one told me

it would lead to this.
No one said
there would be secrets
I would not want to know.

No one told me about seeing,
seeing brought me
loss and darkness I could not hold.

No one told me about writing
or speaking.
Speaking and writing poetry
I unsheathed the sharp edge
of experience that led me here.

No one told me
it could not be put away.
I was told once, only,
in a whisper,
"The blade is so sharp-
It cuts things together
-not apart."

This is no comfort.
My future is full of blood,
from being blindfold,
hands outstretched,
feeling a way along its firm edge.

~David Whyte

(and gratitude to my dear friend, Zuza, who chose to reinterpret the poem for a Soul Motion Class)

(all artwork by yours truly...)

‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee….’ ”

And take a minute to read this beautiful post from someone currently living in the midst of the tragedy. Her perspective is one of kindness, beauty and the power of one-ness:

Ode Magazine - A Letter From Sendai

http://www.odemagazine.com/blogs/readers_blog/24755/a_letter_from_sendai

 

 

When Conan left NBC, he gave a farewell speech that was one of my favorite I’ve ever read. It also included a quote that is worth repeating on a daily basis:

And it wasn’t enough for the Digital Design class at Oklahoma State University either. They have done a project of kinetic typography that truly adds a beautiful element that goes even beyond the speech itself. Enjoy ~

Conan O'Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo

 

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
-
Thomas Dekker

(photo courtesy of www.positivelypresent.com)

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait

a single moment before starting to improve the world.

-Anne Frank

 

(photo of Banksy's work)

 

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man.

The pieces I am, she gather them & give them back to me in all the right order.

It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

 

~ Toni Morrison, Beloved

photo courtesy of sassbide/ Flickr

Title from Marty McConnell