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Yesterday was a long travel day. Actually I'm not sure it still isn't yesterday - or maybe I skipped forward
Looking back gives an amazing simplicity to things. You know, hindsight - it's the concept of rear-view mirror culture McLuhan
person wearing reindeer hoodie standing in front of glass sided chapel
I write about 'yes' a lot, I wrote a whole book about 'yes', and there's a lot of positivity in
box of baking mixture, christmas tree branches in background.
It's the time of year when people think, reflect, take time - to do things, be with people, and to
image or person smiling, wearing sunglasses and sport hat. Field in background
I woke up early (that's before 5am kind of early) to the sound of THERE'S SMOKE IN THE BEDROOM, THE
woman conducting orchestra
On Wednesday evenings I meet with extraordinary people for an hour and a half and a wonderful byproduct of that
mis-shapen pieces of chocolate cake with white icing and sprinkles on
This is actually about something I thought was really not perfect and quite incomplete. Subtitle: 'my cake is not beautiful'.
I'm sure you've had moments marked by a compliment like 'well done', a sticker, star, certificate, applause... yet these aren't
TED.com image of Laura Ritchie's talk
You can see the video of my TEDx talk from May 15 on TED.com HERE or on YouTube below. As
Laura holding a copy of her book
I was very pleased to give this workshop seminar on writing my book for the International Federation of National Teaching