From the incredibly inspriring graduation speech by Paul Hawken given last week at the University of Portland: “There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS…

Today’s crafty Fresh Living theme has me thinking. This weekend I had the happy task of delivering a blanket I crocheted to good friends who just had a beautiful baby girl.  I shared with them that every blanket I’ve ever made is unique – I’ve never followed the same pattern twice.  I really like the…

  My friend Jennifer turned me on to a really cool art project–shared journals. You start with two notebooks and each person fills out three or four pages with drawings, collage, or words, and then you trade. You write on, paint, and otherwise interact with the other person’s pages and then do three to four more of your…

“American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company — almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.” I was surprised–sort of–to read this in today’s New York Times, in an article that reports…

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