Archive for December, 2008
I Want to Hear From You!!
Hello friends, fellow conspirators, fellow mapmakers,
I have started this Memory of the Future conversation as a way to engage and activate our collective dreaming, and hence, our collective reality-creating.
I’ve begun a list of topics I will post about, and have ideas about how to tag and categorize the posts. I’m interested in finding potent language [...]
Music, Memory, Beauty, Community
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
–Alfred Tennyson
I turned on the Sundance channel last night, ready with my take-out Indian dinner, and discovered this beautiful documentary from Icelandic rock band Sigur Ros called Heima.
The band has received worldwide attention, playing large sold out concerts all over the globe. They decided to go back [...]
New York Times ‘Special Edition’ Headline, “IRAQ WAR ENDS”
On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, in an elaborate symbolic summoning; active dreamers created and distributed 1.2 million free copies of a parody edition of The New York Times. Thousands of volunteers passed the paper out at busy subway stations around the city, including Grand Central Terminal, Washington and Union Squares, the 14th and 23rd Street [...]
Welcome to the Memory of the Future Project!
What if we remember the future?
What does a healthy, thriving future look like?
What if we create the roadmaps to get there?
What if we become mapmakers?
The idea for the Memory of the Future Project came about as I realized I did not know of very many examples in literature, arts or film that portrayed healthy, working [...]