Everyday wisdom
26 May 2010One of the things I love about reading blogs and tweets is the everyday wisdom that emerges. You lot inspire me. Here’s some recent favourites: When you are standing on the edge of a cliff, a step forward is not progress. – Anonymous (from Tom Atlee’s web site) We do make waves…sometimes intentionally and sometimes…
Intoxicated? Yes!
18 March 2010This is Hugh MacLeod’s latest cartoon, and this is how he describes it: That heady moment when you realize that all the potential that you knew was there, was just the tip of what could be an unfathomably large iceberg? Love, Life, Enterprise, Discovery? Its one of those powerful moments which don’t come that often,…
Momentum
14 March 2010Yesterday I had afternoon tea with the girls – champagne, asparagus rolls, scones, cupcakes – in other words, the works. It was a pleasant and diverting way to spend a Saturday afternoon. We even had proper china tea cups and matching plates, a lace tablecloth and little silver tongs to pick up small cubes of…
Coincidence
2 March 2010So I go to the US a few years back and meet New York based improviser and consultant Cathy Salit. Fast forward to this week and Cathy is in Australia to do a pilot of her Performance Of A Lifetime program with a client. In the meantime, New Zealander Anne Pattillo and I do some work…
Richer
2 March 2010Scoff if you want. Having criteria to decide what I do and don’t do is actually liberating. Yeah, I know – it’s totally out of character, I’m sure such discipline is not something you would generally attribute to me. Nonetheless, I’ve been applying my criteria – and that is harder than it sounds – and…
Putting down your clever
26 November 2009I’ve been reading lots of interesting blogs lately – and wanting to comment on them – and blocking myself by wanting to say something, oh, you know, clever or witty. So I say nothing, and I lose an opportunity to connect, and to just say, thanks for writing this. So I’m going to consciously try…
Time well spent
21 November 2009Here’s some images from my recent trip to the US. I was there on holidays, and to attend the Applied Improv Conference in Portland, Oregon. The highlights were the scenery, autumn colours, fresh snow, Yosemite (wow!), indulging my passion for photography, sharing the improv conference with my good friends Anne Pattillo, Geoff Brown and Chris…
Where’s Viv?
20 November 2009This post is prompted by the question posed recently: “Has Viv dropped off the planet?” Well, no… not really. I’ve been on holidays – that’s vacation in America-speak, so that accounts for me being quieter than usual in the blogosphere and elsewhere. I like being unavailable, off-line – although my partner would definitely disagree, saying…
Space
18 October 2009I’ve written before about the flow of work and the seasons, and how my energy waxes and wanes according to the time of the year. This, and the different time zones inhabited by my friends and colleagues, makes for some interesting connectedness – or not! So I am very much looking forward to the next…
Off the air
2 October 2009I’ll be off the air for a week or so. I expect to have many stories to tell on my return to the airwaves. In the meantime, stay safe, wherever you are. And so as you don’t forget me, here’s my latest rock balancing effort. .