This is the building that I practically live in during school. Today is the start of Fall Welcome at Western Michigan University. Campus is flooded with freshmen and their parents, getting everybody moved into the dorms. I’m a senior (halfway super-senior? It’s complicated) and I feel like that gives me some authority to give advice …
Roxane Gay is amazing, and I just found out that she did at TED talk about being a bad feminist, and the scrutiny that women who are public figures are held up to when they declare themselves to be feminists. We’re coming up on the tenth annivarsary of Hurricane Katrina. I was only 12 when …
Alison Parker and Adam Ward, Source This morning, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two reporters for WDBJ 7 in Virgina were murdered during a live broadcast. My heart goes out to their families and friends. It’s always incredibly difficult to lose someone close to you, and I imagine that pain is multiplied when it is so …
Design For Action – design thinking, in it’s murky, undefinable glory, is on the cover of Harvard Business Review. As design has moved further from the world of products, its tools have been adapted and extended into a distinct new discipline: design thinking. Arguably, Nobel laureate Herbert Simon got the ball rolling with the 1969 …
I first heard about Brené Brown from AndKathleen’s post about her a while back, and I’d read a few articles about her work on vulnerability, but I didn’t actually watch her TEDx talk until yesterday, when I was coooking for hours and needed something to distract me. Her talk is about her research on wholeheartedness – …
1. Consider the experience. This is a bit of wisdom I heard a lot at design school. You always have to think about the user experience. If someone walks into the kitchen at Motown and asks us to refill the cereal container, we have a choice – do we want to make that a positive …
The interns. The past few weeks at Motown Mission have been tough for everyone, and it’s been nothing short of fascinating to see how each of the interns function under stress.I think that at some points, we have been putting the intentional community of interns ahead of our actual purpose here. We’re here to create …
Here’s a sample of what I’ve been reading this week, and what I think of it. The WPA: 92 Posters Paid For By the Government – Happy 4th of July! Here are some historic posters from the WPA, for a variety of purposes. I love the bold visuals of the posters, and the lovely, classic …
We watched the fireworks from a field next to the Ambassador Bridge! One of our goals as interns at Motown Mission is to live in intentional community.Of course, there’s no single idea of what intentional community means, or one strict set of rules. Instead, we made a covenant together. The covenant lists things that we …
We went to Eastern Market. My first Saturday staying in the city, we went to Eastern Market to get food for the weekend. It was the first time I’ve gone to Eastern Market without my family, and it was interesting.As a kid, I remember coming to Eastern Market with my mom and grandmother. We would …