to learn, to become ~ a meditation on how, what, when, where, who + why we learn
‘It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our…
A Clothesmaker’s Life, 2000-2020
“vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. they change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.” ~ virginia woolf, orlando sometimes…
100 days / how far have we come, where are we now + what’s next??? (part 4 of 4 / 100 days of sheltering in place)
Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning” ~ joan didion there are days and there are nights and there have…
80 days… and counting / “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” (part 3 of 4 / 100 days of Sheltering In Place)
“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope.” ~ james baldwin a pandemic? COVID-19? it’s amazing (and almost shocking, though that’s how media and…
Day 55 / STILL in quarantine. More baking, making, eating, reading, watching…(part 2 of 4 / 100 days of Sheltering In Place)
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Teresa you wake up and it’s friday. or maybe thursday, or could it already be the weekend, again? you can’t…
shelter in place, the first 14 days / searching for purpose + meaning…. 100+ things to do, eat, watch, make…and think about… (part 1 of 4 / 100 days of SIP)
“It is tempting to write the history of technology through products: the wheel; the microscope; the airplane; the Internet. But it is more illuminating to write the history of technology through transitions: linear motion to circular…
a borja bernberg trip: paris, madrid, segovia, salamanca, san sebastian, bilbao…
“one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ henry miller you’ve just come back from a family vacation to france and spain. it’s a long flight home ~ a 2…
Today at Apple / Apple Union Square / June 2018 through April 2019, as “guest” Head of Programming
Today at Apple / Apple Union Square / themes + variations context : a snippet from a Forbes article from May 20th 2017 ~ Today At Apple: How Angela Ahrendts Imagined a New Apple Experience by…
“we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ~ anais nin / remembering gene pearson …
“throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ~ anais nin above…
“we write to taste life twice…” / nyc ~ from she-can to jpmorgan chase…
“if I wasn’t moving forward, i felt like i was going to explode.” ~ neil burger’s limitless, 2011 everytime i arrive in nyc. everytime i leave. it’s like a dream… so i come back to the…
51 looks, cari borja clothesmaker collectibles / “caterpillar by day, butterfly by night” ~ coco chanel
“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a catapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar…
what’s in “an education”? / on finding a fitting place at Orinda Academy, and re-thinking the wonders of Holy Cross
“if we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift…