Hope, Even Now
"The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."
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You see me, but not all of me
I wanted to share this beautiful poem by Luis Perez I discovered in his Ted-Ed talk titled "What losing my vision taught me about access."
Neither here nor there
Neither blind nor sighted
I see you, but not all of you
You see me, but not all of
Disability Drives Innovation
An excellent TEDx presentation about Universal Design by Michael Nesmith from the IAAP CPACC Prep course.
“When you achieve universal design, it snowballs to the point where people, even if you don’t share the same disability, everyone benefits from it. Disability drives innovation. The existence of disability forces you
Probably not. But maybe.
"I can tell you with 100 percent confidence that there is a 50 percent chance of any goddamn thing happening."
"Their projection is absurd, mine is correct, and they both mean the same thing."
McSweeney's nails it, again. (via Kottke)
No Leaders Please
Recently, I've been reflecting on time, energy, and where we direct it, and spend it. Some of the books I've been reading are interrelated around the idea of time. Mostly, about how fleeting our time on this planet is, and how incredible it is that we exist at all.
It is up to us...
When President Joe Biden announced just a week ago that he would not accept the Democratic nomination for president, he did not pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.
He passed it to us.
It is up to us to decide whether we want a country based on fear
No Beer Here
One of the best live shows I've ever been to was the DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist "Renegades of Rhythm tour, where they used Afrika Bambaataa's original vinyl. Amazing. I can't believe some of the shows I've been fortunate to see.