A friend posted Maya Angelou's Still I Rise this morning, and the journey began. I hadn't read the poem in a couple of years - and hearing Angelou recite it is a totally different experience:
Reading through some of her poetry, I ended up at TED, listening to iconic designer Philippe Starck talk in his self-effacing, comic way about 'our beautiful story' and being a good mutant. He covers human creativity, poetry, toilet seats, supermonkeys; how easily we fall from civilised to barbaric society, and our 'duty of vision', to look up, to see farther: "Arise the angle of vision" as he so endearingly phrases it. It's a nebulous free-ranging talk (which some find infuriating), but it's thought-provoking.
Philippe Starck thinks deep on design | Video on TED.com
Starck also does a killer impression of primordial soup. Bloop bloop bloop :-)
Anyhoo, then came Toni Morrison and Odetta, both speaking from different perspectives on overcoming, on being greater than any sorrow or disadvantage or anger you might feel or face. Which coincidentally fit nicely with the short film Words from NPR and Radiolab, referred today from openculture. In a short space, it offers a lovely wide perspective, giving a nice sense of things being greater than any one instance.
Treaty, to spend a couple of hours in the company of lyrical speakers and inspiring images.
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