Matthew
Enjoy the Moment
I went to Pacifica’s open house. The place was magical, and I knew that’s where I wanted to go to graduate school. I slept on campus the first night and woke up early the following day.
Matthew Clapp
Matthew
Can You Skydive?
There is nothing quite like standing at the edge of an open airplane door at 15,000 feet waiting to jump. The moment of truth. When you’re feet leave the platform and you realize what you’ve done, it’s as close to Zen as you’ll ever experience.
Matthew
Week One
Week one – it’s almost over. After hearing the client call me the overall project manager for their enterprise-wide data warehousing project … I threw up all over her. Well, not really, but I felt like it. Even after the weekend chewing all the nutmeg I could get my hands on
Mind
The Ship on the Horizon, Raft of the Medusa
In humanity’s history, we find the deepest lessons to learn. In 1816, the French frigate “Medusa” shipwrecked near Morocco. The remains of the ship served as the only raft that maintained 149 people without direction for more than 27 days. The dramatic experience impelled a painter to carry out
Myth
Joseph Campbell: Psychological or Metaphysical
This is a very interesting topic and I find myself wondering exactly where Campbell’s ultimate passions were. The first image that is called to mind is Campbell’s rather amazing recounting of a story he read in a Hawaiian newspaper (source: Power of Myth). It was about a guy
Thinking
Laughter In the Aisles
Humor is one of the most under-discussed, unexplored, and undocumented everyday phenomena I know of. Bergson was actually one of the few philosophers in history to take up the difficult task of analyzing what makes us laugh. Ironically, his findings are rather dry and philosophical but he does give his