The future grows from the stories we tell.
After the turkey and presents and watching the aluminum tree light up in red, yellow, and green from the floor-mounted spinning gels, all of us little kids would start asking one another if we thought Good Witch Bad Witch would pay us a visit.
Working with Thomas Edison wasn’t as magical as my first cousin, 3 times removed, hoped. But, I learned a lot about the cost of career success from the reflections of Walter E Holland and his wife, Alice.
I discovered a secret about my parents and wanted desperately to share the story. But first, I had to weigh the rules my mother lived by against her last request to me. It was a transformative process.
David Candow’s radio advice came out of the knowledge that listening is linear and contextual. The ear can’t process information the same way the eye can. He would say, “the ear is lazy, the eye is greedy.” So, he advised us to only deliver one thought per sentence, in order, leading to a conclusion.
