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ART & ORGANISM:  WORDS about WORDS Joseph Campbell once wrote, "The best things can’t be told . . ."  Yet most of us have found ourselves deeply moved by a…

ART, the ORGANISM, Loneliness, and Longing Mary once said. "We have needs, wants, desires, and then there is this other thing ... and this is important, so pay attention: before…

This morning, my Friend and colleague, Phil, sent this a memo with an accumulation of "healing nature" material he collected: “Human evolutionists wonder about how the sense of beauty evolved…

ART & ORGANISM LOVE and TRUTH notes  IN A&O we spent some time thinking about TRUTH and BEAUTY:  with what may be Keats' most famous lines (in his ode 'Ode…

Is communication an art or a science? [about a year ago, someone asked this question; I spent a while trying to distill the essence of A&O and came up with…

ART and ORGANISM MAGIC and the MIND   COMMUNICATION is a COLLABORATIVE ACT. Like artists, we all seek to communicate clearly and in service of that ambition we whatever we…

in A&O, DEVELOPMENT is one of the primary biological themes.  It represents change in an individual's  life  (as opposed to  EVOLUTION, changes across generations) CHANGE was eloquently characterized by Marshall…

Scratching the itch postponing the premonitory urge seeking the angle of repose We want to "fit in" -- our intersubjective urge leads us to find (maybe sometimes invent) shared qualities…

DOODLING …is associated with marks—drawings perhaps—made with a minimum of conscious attention.  It can have positive effects on memory, can relieve stress, (Wikipedia on Doodling), and may provide clues about…