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For art to rise and shine, it needs neighbors who toe the line
What is the link between travel and art? Is a destination, by virtue of its mass appeal, sentenced to a diminished craft community, of tinkerers and self-selected assemblers of earrings and shapers of…
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All the really good ideas die in the e-mail ‘Trash’ bucket
(Editor’s note: Despite the proliferation of social media, e-mail is still the killer app. It fosters business, and healthy, creative personal interaction. This is a transcript of an actual exchange, conducted between the…
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Last thoughts of persons victimized by the charitable impulse to share some scraps
On the off-chance that this document survives what now appears inevitable, I want you to know that it all occurred not out of malice, nor with any indifference to the slippery slope that…
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Start walking, keep walking and don’t stop walking until you are full
How can anyone experience anything of a place at the speed of auto-motion? Cars and buses are great for moving us from Point A to Point F and quickly past Points B, C,…
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‘Doing nothing’ involves a whole lot of ‘something’
Of all the tasks I’ve added to my plate in the last year, none has caused me more psychic disruption than the simple act of doing nothing. I’m not even sure I know…
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Collectivos, buses provide cheap transit path to rich Oaxaca experience
With three weeks remaining on our two-month stay in Oaxaca, I took a collectivo out to the airport yesterday. “A what?” you ask. It’s a local transit option, a little bit taxi, a…