the final and greatest adventure

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped. Thou shalt not return. And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. — Alexander Supertramp





Into the Wild, Sean Penn, tells the story of a young man fleeing civilization, repudiating society and escaping past, in pursue of the ultimate and purest truth, NATURE. However he neglects one fact... nature created man, and thus man IS nature. Bitter-sweet ending shines a light upon us, he will ultimately discover that happiness is only real when shared.


Fantastic ode to a brave adventurer, and most importantly, a truth seeker.

on the perfect pitch

Passion. It seems that lately I keep running into this concept. To believe in what you do and to love what you do is the best bet for success. Like the London Call girl in Steel's book. Another important key to a successful presentation is practice, not necessarily repetition but rather mastering, owning. And these concepts, passion and mastery, are important because if you boil them down, they represent the essence of truth.

Imagine Learning

So Charlie has had this project in mind for a long time and for the last past weeks we have been pioneering "Imagine Learning" in our Research class. This highly ambitious project aims to find ways to reinvent redesign high school education.

The best thing about this project is the method of approach that we are using, the so called APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY.
Appreciate Inquiry focuses on the positive, working with what is already given, identifying strenghs and building around it.
(more about this in future posts*)

Our research groups have consisted on "sharing and dreaming sessions" with Bay Area High School students. It was truly fascinating to find out how much these kids have to say. These sessions last around 3-4 hours and consist on three parts. First they answer personal outlook questions (that will later share with the group), secondly, they come up with a group outlook on the current educational system and lastly, the dreaming part, where in groups, they literally "paint" their "high school dream" in a big piece of canvas.

Here are some pictures from the Marin High School of the Arts session in Novato High School:

... And I can't wait to start putting together the documentary!!!! ^_^