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‘Japanese Lines’ for My Mom
You know your lecture’s gone well when the first person who says “wow!” is your Mom. She was one of about thirty I’d invited to the North Carolina Japan Center for my first public multimedia...
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6 preview pix of DK’s FRIDAY Sharpie show
You may remember some of Dipika’s past Sharpie shows: People You May Know in Durham 2010 Beautiful Simple in Seattle 2009 Wavular in Seattle in 2008 This is the first time the Sharpie comes to...
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How we got to Ireland
This is Akira in Dublin. Seven years ago. I love that place you can be in life when you're not sure what's coming up. It's like picking up packages from a conveyor belt. Say you've just unwrapped one...
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Like versus love in Asheville
Our awesome hosts at Thanksgiving made this. We spent Thanksgiving on the outskirts of Asheville getting back to nature and eating this amazing meal. A new DK client, based in the Bay Area and working...
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A man of 85 runs into DK
I love trains. Today I had the pleasure of meeting a man of 85. Like me, he was boarding the early train at Amtrak. But going a lot further. Both of us are big fans of train travel. We were waiting. A...
View ArticleDispatch from Brunswick Georgia
I am writing from the public library in Brunswick, Georgia, after four days of not seeing flush toilets. Camping. I like blogging from these distant parts, ‘the road,’ and thinking about what is going...
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In Search of Meaning (34): ‘You often need a lot of new input’
To Buda or Pest? A dear friend just said something that clarified for me why I’ve begun to dream of Budapest. “I’m thinking about trying out something new, maybe in Budapest,” I say to W. at lunch...
View ArticleThe only thing you need to do to find your calling
Purpose. Definition. Meaning. Legacy. All of these things flow together. How do you know what your real calling is? Only when you take the time to go through some extensive introspection. Only when you...
View ArticleSeek and you shall find it
Two weeks into travel around the coast and to four major cities in Viet Nam, and I’m ready to tell you a little bit about it. Yes, it really looks like this. Buses and trains around the countryside...
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Three words that can change your life
It’s early, and I’m up, and we are in Bangkok. The family, that is. Akira, our four year-old son, and me. We are Design Kompany on the road now, not just “your local Design Kompany,” which was the...
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Hello Phnom Penh: could you be our new home?
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is a candid shot—(do you see many of those these days? I feel like they are rarer now that we have instant editing and ‘film’ is cheap)—that Akira took while Kush (left) and...
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The trouble with goals
MOST OF THE TIME you don’t know what a journey is about, exactly, at the start. A life journey, for example. Or a creative one. It’s not my original thought: it’s something I got from a chance...
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