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The Symbolism of the Axe

Brand, story, object and ritual. The art of the axe, chopping wood, arranging wood, starting fires, it holds a string of stories for many. Being in Portland, a proverbial city of the Axe, has built a culture around the axe. The axe is a splitting adze, a blade that...

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windows

The symbolism of the window Thinking design / portals of storytelling / brand / story / insight. In the window to experience, you see in: in=sight. In the window to the object: circumspect -- you walk around, surveil from the circumference. In the window to the soul:...

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Leaning in —the curve of listening

The angle of listening, listing and leaning | "Lean In," by Sheryl Sandberg There's no doubt that Sandberg is remarkable -- the incidence of laudations about her come from every degree of the literary arc, including a recent string of notations in the NYTimes, which...

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The writing, that goes back

The writing of the eternal return: the perpetual script of spinning time When you contemplate the road forward, there's a chance to look back, the path that brought you to where you are. [image above, from http://mattgirvin.org/] It's difficult work, when you're...

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God made a farmer

The farmer in you | II Planting the seeds of ideals, dreams, the promise in the mission of creativity I'd written a blog, just back, with meditations on the archetypal character of Dodge's "farmer in you" advertising. Storytelling from various people emerged, and some...

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