Sunlight slides in from along the western mountain range to spotlight distant spring-green hillsides (i kid you not - they are palpably green!)... another sample of why it isn't hard to fall in love with Montana's ever-vast and changing sky.
22 May 2020
20 May 2020
On The (Eventual) Return To The Office - Missoula, Montana
"...No Skype chat can replicate what [Thomas] Heatherwick calls the “chemistry of
the unexpected” that you get in person. Offices may not fill the pages
of poetry anthologies but, says [Lucy] Kellaway, they “can be as moving as
anywhere on Earth. Because what moves us is not sitting at our computer,
it’s the relationship that we have with people.”
...When Wordsworth seems to have grown a trifle too smug about the sublime joys of the natural world, [Charles] Lamb snapped back. “I don’t much care if I never see a mountain in my life.” But he did care for the city and he certainly loved offices. All his complaints were, he wrote, mere “lovers’ quarrels”...-Catherine Nixey, in her online article "Death of the Office", The Economist, June/July 2020
Treat yourself to the entire delightfully history-spattered article here.
And be fully present, wherever you are, in this very minute.
...When Wordsworth seems to have grown a trifle too smug about the sublime joys of the natural world, [Charles] Lamb snapped back. “I don’t much care if I never see a mountain in my life.” But he did care for the city and he certainly loved offices. All his complaints were, he wrote, mere “lovers’ quarrels”...-Catherine Nixey, in her online article "Death of the Office", The Economist, June/July 2020
Treat yourself to the entire delightfully history-spattered article here.
And be fully present, wherever you are, in this very minute.
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