Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Playing The World’s Edge       Dedicated to Richard Vick, artist, father, adventurer Who just departed on the big one. He suffered and he loved. That was once his choice for a tombstone inscription. Bon Voyage, old sailor.         Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard. Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Human Condition in Process The Wrong Planet tribe are the pranksters, the court jesters, the comedians, the Bohemians, the flower children, the nomads and vagrants, the free spirits. Without these the world would be full of humans who are little more than robots. Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet Searching for your Tribe

Jack-Outside-the-Box Art Pedal = your tongue The Flag of Your Country = your tongue

Tinkering With Thinkers The little things? The little moments? They aren't little. Jon Kabat-Zinn

Dancing With Clio Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. Rumi

Anti-Kaching Thunk Chunks Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks. Daniel Levitin

Long Story Shorts What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war. Pablo Picasso