Beginnings

image Emily Barney, Flickr Creative Commons.

In 2009, I sold my stake in an eco-development firm that I help found in order to pursue an academic career and to return to the creative works of a previous life. I’m starting this modest little blog in order to marry a few loves of mine – crafting, learning, reuse/recycling, and writing. And hopefully to share a couple fun ideas. My ideas and the ideas of many other people.

Ultimately, this is part of a continuous exercise in rethinking the common – part of a way to train myself to identify new ways to see and use the objects and experiences in my life, partly in hope that it will challenge me and others to apply the same kind of thinking to the more challenging problems that face us today. This is my invitation for you to participate in this exercise.

Please share with me your ideas for clever use/reuse of common objects, or rethinking concepts in general.