Help Japan Poster

W+K Studio has designed and asks for your donations in exchange for a “Help Japan” poster. Minimum donation is $25. 100% will go to the earthquake and tsunami relief.

Weekend

Thai food. Hiked up a misty mountain with friends and family (including dog). Cave exploration. Exercise. Quality time with friends. Shinjiang food. Quiet time with wife. Laundry. Housework. Preparation for work. Read. Drink coffee at home. Open the windows. Study. Be productive.

Japan Earthquake

I have spent six + years in Japan. Earthquakes are terrifying and Japan is a second home to me. I feel for those affected by this devastating earthquake and tsunami. It is moments like this that the profundity and perplexity of life and death emerge and bewilder. I stand mouth agape. My heart goes out [...]

Conventional Wisdoms: An Exercise (#2)

It was a great challenge to think through Lee Thayer’s thoughts on “advice” and knowledge in the previous post (Figuring Out). Today, I would like to tackle his second “Brain Exercise,” and attempt to think through it and make it meaningful to myself and hopefully to you, the reader. The second exercise calls for us [...]

Figuring Out: An Exercise

In a blog post from early 2007, Lee Thayer proposed a series of “brain stretching exercises” meant to getting one’s thinking gears in shape. Today, I will attempt to exercise my brain by tackling one of these exercises. The exercise in question revolves around the idea that, “People can’t figure out what they need to [...]

Quotation to Consider: Saint-Exupery

“Wherefore I say that your chief aim in the building up of Man is not to give him learning, which serves no end and if he be but a walking book, but to lift his eyes and point him to those higher levels on which there are no more things-in-themselves, but only aspects of that [...]

Quotation to Consider: James Allen

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the men whose sole object is [...]