the green chest

Tag: TED

  • The Journey

    By Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what you […]

  • A Brilliant Teen’s Take on Feminism

    While working in the social media marketing space, I’ve had some conversations concerning marketing to teens. The question is always, How do we speak to teens? Are they even on facebook, twitter, etc? How do we know? There’s sometimes a sense of exasperation around the subject, as if it’s impossible to predict what teens want […]

  • fact friday rio: poverty and world change

    Violence is rampant in Rio’s favelas. Art can help. This is a big topic for the first post in what I hope will become a weekly series about Rio. I was planning to discuss only lovely things about Rio before I delved into the topic of class wars, but sadly, I couldn’t find much out […]