Tag: Buckminster Fuller

  • Artists Turn Chaos Into Culture

    Artists Turn Chaos Into Culture

    When I was six years old my mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I told her I wanted paint, a canvas, and an easel because I wanted to be an artist. Her response was that artists don’t make money. Instead she bought me a typewriter and told me I was going to…

  • There is More Than Enough for Everyone

    There is More Than Enough for Everyone

    I imagine that for many of us, this title goes against everything we’ve ever been told about the resources on this planet or the economic model that we’ve been addicted to for centuries. But the reality is that there is more than enough. We just have our values misplaced so that we can’t see the…

  • Ghosts of Suicide

    Ghosts of Suicide

    I am not one of those people who believes that people ever get over the traumas that happen in their lives. Rather, I believe that we either learn to live with them or we expand to leverage them. In my own life, I can admit that I  have never gotten over anything in the conventional…