Tasai members got together a couple of years back to talk about what we value, who we are. The result is the six words you find at the bottom of our front page: collaboration, bridge, connection, fusion, craft and catalyst. Under connection it says this: What kind of...

Everyone is asking you to be creative, but you don’t feel very creative. “I need some art in my life,” you think to yourself. But art is kind of incomprehensible, intimidating even. First, if you’re a human being, you *are* creative. Second, you *do* need more art in...

I wrote a book about lament, so I might be a bit biased, but I find grief and lament turning up a lot lately as important antidotes to many of the diseases of our modern western culture, not the least of which is a severe deficit of meaning.

I think “creative” people are integrated people. They are holistic thinkers. They are facile at integrating analytic thinking and contextual thinking, what I would call object-thinking and place-thinking.

That’s why, when you scratch under the surface of the shiny happy condo marketing version of Vancouver, you find people who operate within progressive well intentioned organizations that in turn operate within a progressive well intentioned cultural ethos and yet find themselves a jittery jumble of tenuous identities, their days marked with fragmentation, busy-ness, and to a great extent, loneliness.

With all the bullshit going on in the world right now, the fact that a roomful of adults stood transfixed for even a few moments in this still and graceful peace while beauty unfolded before our very eyes…it just makes me hopeful. Can’t help it. It just does.

I think art needs to aspire to more than a shoulder shrug, especially a shoulder shrug holding a champagne glass, and even more especially when selling the shoulder shrug bought the champagne. I know that’s his point, but I don’t buy it, literally and figuratively.

All organizations, of course, make adjustments to the design of their organizational structures while underway. Usually they’re pragmatic hands on Scotty-in-the-engine-room-one-part-duct-tape-one-part-genius adaptations in response to the gap between intention and reality.

An observed life is not the same as an examined life. “Learn how to see. Realize everything connects to everything else.” ~Leonardo Da Vinci

If organizations—even organization arrayed around social entrepreneurship and conscious capital—really want to help create the world we all want, they had better start taking to artists. Why? Precisely because of artist’s tenacious capacity to insist on being human.

A friend of mine invited me to spend some time filming Jean Vanier at the L'Arche community north of Paris. It was like being with Gandalf; Vanier was tall and white of beard, he made tea for us, he was gentle and wise and, with an awe inspiring intensity, fiercely...

Let me tell you a little about myself, because we are our stories, and who we are today is a result of where and who we have been.

Video of Poemdroids Only performing at the Powell Street Festival. / ポエムドロイズオンリーがパフォーマンスを行ったパウエル祭のビデオです。

What did you miss at last Friday’s ONExONE? Here’s some of where the conversation went, with extra musings thrown in at no extra charge.

“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope." ~ Thomas Merton A friend posted...

What if, as I walk through my city, I were to see it through a kintsugi lens? What if skill, as the Dreyfus quote below asserts, meant something? What would it mean to live skillfully in the city, having developed a heart to take good care of things?

Friday’s film night proved to be quietly epic.

ポエムドロイズオンリー「月とブランコ」日本ツアー　In　練馬区新江古田

Jenny Hawkinson is part of an Open Book Art Collective exhibition. It’s up until Feb. 28 at The Britannia Art Gallery, 1661 Napier St., Vancouver.

Sora and Yurie gave one of three presentations at the first ever ONExONE PechaKucha powered event.