I recently returned from an artist residency in the most southern point of the heel of Italy. I decided at the last minute to participate in this 2-week residency, and I got five others to join me. We were a mixture of artists, musicians, landscape architect, photographer and professor. The theme of the residency was the Sacred Stones of Salento. That captured my interest because I love scrambling over rocks and into grottos by the sea and digging into history. The area has been home to Neanderthal populations and the area we worked in, a preserve, is where many of the [...]

You make a million choices every day, some not even in your conscious awareness. Making decisions takes a lot of bandwidth and in order to get through a day it is necessary to put many of the decisions on automatic pilot. Just imagine if you had to think about walking, talking and breathing. This is the human condition, and it works to your advantage. I propose for a few minutes you become aware of those automatic choices. Slow down and be in the moment.   Why? So you can see yourself in the bigger plan. I make a choice to begin my day [...]