by Havi Brooks | Sep 30, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
Not a big secret that this is something I care about. I write kind of a lot about play and playing. See: yesterday and … pretty much everything else. Also, I have a Playground, a dedicated space for extreme goofballery. And tomorrow we begin the fourth quarter at the...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 20, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
A few weeks ago I talked about establishing culture, and my sense of what that means. No one has yet written the Lonely Planet guide to The Fluent Self, Inc. — pirate ship at large, but when I think about the qualities that come together to make this space what...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 16, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
Today I stumbled into an absolutely massive pile of iguanas. If you are not familiar with the iguanas, I’m referring to the Inowanna variety: those things you just don’t feel like doing. Today’s iguanas are all at least tangentially related to Shiva...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 13, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
My friend Michael has this theory. It’s been at least a decade since he explained it to me so there’s pretty much no way I can do justice to its twisted brilliance/hilarity, but the basic idea is this: Sometimes we fall out of synch with the world. Or with...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 4, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
I talk to monsters. Like my Book monster. Or the You’re Not Allowed monster.* * At first they are very scary but then they’re all schmoo-schmoo-schmoo. Extreme schmoo-ness! And sometimes I talk to other people’s monsters. It’s kind of one of my...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 19, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
I have all kinds of things I want to say about this fox. But if this is going to even slightly make sense, I have to explain the Video Game Technique.* * A useful thing my students/clients use to simultaneously practice several of the principles we work with. If...
