Why is the idea of a journey important right now? How can we use the ideas about a journey to help us understand things that are changing or confusing or just too complicated in our everyday lives? That’s what I’m trying to do here. Although I enjoy travelling and telling stories about what happened,…
Why do people buy stories? Why do people pay story-tellers to tell them the stories that they’ve gathered out in the world? I’m not talking about the bulk of book & movie purchases, which seems to be fiction: made-up, complicated and modernised versions of ancient themes. They’re generally reassurances that all is well –…
Here’s me in my Learning Pool t-shirt while I was in New Orleans. Ray Nichols kindly took me along to an event called “Be The Change: A Celebration of New Orleans Social Entrepreneurs”. It was great – a few hundred energetic people, all full of big ideas about how to change their bit of the…
The one thing I want to learn from The American Trip is that asking for help in this way really works. Also that sticking with the process, no matter what, is what makes for the most amazing experiences. So here are the elements of today’s conundrum. On the debit side: I have no paid…
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[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21871782 w=640&h=360] People have asked me how different train travel is in the USA from the UK and Europe. In this clip you get a flavo(u)r of it by way of the announcements made pre-trip by Nancy our coach car service attendant and the responses from some of my fellow passengers. I shot this…
Thomas eyes Barack Father teaches Liberty Cherry Blossom Time I sat for a while on the steps of the memorial to Thomas Jefferson on Sunday, following the line of sight of his statue across the tidal basin, the Washington Monument and the White House in the distance. Next to me a young girl was…
I'm home. It's weird. I'm struggling to string words together when talking to people (I went straight to Tuttle from the airport this morning) partly because I got about 4 hours sleep last night starting at the equivalent of 2am and partly because I haven't spoken to that many people at once for a while,…
smells smoky, can’t wait to taste it 🙂Originally posted on Please Look After This Englishman
Note the lack of any trace of bacon in the leftovers. Originally posted on Please Look After This Englishman