Barca

Besides Paris, I don’t think I have wanted to live somewhere within 5 minutes of getting there. But Barcelona, it got me. In fact, I don’t even think Paris was that quick. Within five minutes of getting off the metro, I was faced by some of the most beautiful buildings I had ever seen.

TED Loop

Over the last few days, I have been trapped in what I like to call, the 'TED loop'.

TED, if you have never heard of it before, is a global set of conferences, running annually since 1990. The basic concept is 'ideas worth spreading'. Brilliant people giving brilliant talks about everything and anything that is new and powerful and interesting. Things that should be changed, things that have just been invented, things that we believe true which are actually false and things we never thought about before, solutions to problems we don't know exist.  The talks are uploaded online, which leads to my problem.

This place is a magical wonderland.
If I so choose, I can watch videos on, but not limited to:

The girl with twelve pairs of legs, here. And her talk on the power of adversity. And ten years earlier, her first talk at TED.
The girl who asked for school, here.
What's wrong with schools, here.
Statistics on the population, wealth, and how the difference between the third world and the western world doesn't really exist, here.
Can we change our personality with our posture, here.
Gangster gardening, here.
Ethical foie gras or a guy who just wants to 'give the geese what they want', here.
The brain in love, here.
Building green, here.
Try something new, here.
A world without oil, here.
Autism, types of minds, and what the world needs, here.
The first part of this one is excellent.
This one changed how I eat, in France at least.
Power of introverts, here.
Council of dads, here.

These are a few of my favourites, but let's be honest, by tomorrow I will have watched many many more. I am stuck in the TED loop.

On things I can’t forgive and will not forget.

While in Spain, I had the opportunity to look at the way I see the world, the things that are uniquely important to me and things that I think should be important to everyone, ever, period.

Off Again

Aware that I am still missing Christmas posts and French posts, thought I would reappear in blog land with a far more recent one. Here is the beginning of my journey to Spain in the school holidays of last month right up until yesterday.